X factor is dropped and mediocrity is retained: Prasad

 

New Delhi :  Former pacer Venkatesh Prasad has criticised the exclusion of Ishan Kishan from India’s playing eleven for the first ODI against Sri Lanka, saying “there is no way you drop a player for scoring a double hundred”.

Ahead of the first ODI against Sri Lanka on Tuesday, India skipper Rohit Sharma made it clear that he will open alongside Shubman Gill and not Kishan, who scored a double hundred in his last innings in the 50-over format.

“Think fair would have been to give chance to a man who scored a double hundred in India’s last ODI, and in a series where India lost two games and the series.