Indian cricket analyst Akash Chopra has said that although Mitchell Starc’s sudden retirement from T20Is ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup next year has surprised him, he stated the reason that pacer can sometimes be expensive with his economy in the smallest format.
The great Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc has announced his retirement from the shortest format of the game, which received widespread reactions from the cricket fraternity. This was because the ICC T20 World Cup is to be played next year, as Australians have also line up several T20I series in the next few months.
Akash Chopra’s unusual opinion on Mitchell Starc’s T20I retirement
Former Indian player Akash Chopra has also expressed the same surprise at learning a sudden call from Stark for retirement; However, he has also accepted the fact that pacer is often killed for a lot of runs.
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In a video shared on his YouTube channel, the former Indian opener was asked whether Mitchell Starc’s decision to retire is the right call, which he replied, said: said:
“I am a little surprised. Michelle could play the Starc World Cup and then say goodbye, but he did not wait for the World Cup. To be fair, he has not played a lot of T20 E. he is an absolute gun bowler, but he is also that can be very expensive from time to time.
“Australian and English cricketer don’t say goodbye to ashes so soon”
In the same video, later, Chopra also said that Stark’s initial retirement call from T20I may be to prolong its red ball and one -day career, which highlights the importance of ash and World Cup for Australia.
“Everyone has their own choice, and I think Australian and English cricketers do not say goodbye to ash so soon. It is a question of tradition. They are difficult in such a way that the ash is very, very important, and the one -day World Cup is very important.
Mitchell Starc was sold for INR 11.75 crores in the last IPL mega auction, while in the earlier season, he was acquired for INR 24.75 crore. Therefore, Chopra said that making money is not a big deal in sports nowadays.
Chopra said, “You have a T20 league to earn money. So that it is an idea process.
Akash Chopra is unrelated to the test of Indian experienced cricketers retirement
Despite Mitchell Stark’s T20I retirement, Chopra cannot discuss retirement from Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s Test cricket. Therefore, he said that he feels that Rohit and Kohli should have stopped testing because nowadays Odis are not played much.
“Personally, I am still not convinced that Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have left the test and did the right thing. In my opinion, they should have continued the test and if they want, ODI should leave, because Odis is not much. Otherwise, they could continue to play ODI.”
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