'Cheapening India cap'
Sunil Gavaskar urged the BCCI to protect the scarcity value of an India cap by guaranteeing contracted players one month of annual rest.
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar called on the BCCI to ensure centrally contracted players receive at least one month of uninterrupted rest each year. He linked the issue to player rotation policies and warned that frequent squad changes risk diminishing the value of an India cap.
Gavaskar urged the board to reconsider how India caps are awarded amid ongoing discussions about emerging talents. The comments come as the BCCI manages a packed international calendar and balances workload for its core group of players.
The former captain framed the rest requirement as essential to preserving the honour attached to representing India at the highest level.
CricHubb Take
Gavaskar's intervention reframes rotation not as workload management but as a deliberate policy choice that could erode the symbolic weight of selection if left unchecked.