{"id":398824,"date":"2025-09-05T02:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398824\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:31:12","slug":"captains-favourites-got-chances-senior-india-star-hints-at-frustrating-selection-bias-after-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398824\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain\u2019s favourites got chances: Senior India star hints at ‘frustrating’ selection bias after retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Senior India spinner Amit Mishra<\/a>, who retired from all forms of cricket on Thursday, hinted at the selection bias prevalent in the national team during his career. The 42-year-old last played for the Indian team<\/a> in 2017, in a T20I match against England in Bengaluru. Overall, he donned the Indian jersey 68 times across the three formats, picking 156 wickets.<\/p>\n

\"Amit Amit Mishra (extreme right) retired from cricket on Thursday <\/p>\n

Speaking to PTI after drawing curtains on his career, Mishra opened up on the frustration of constantly being in and out of the team and not getting a lengthy rope. He claimed that some players were the captain\u2019s favourites, but admitted he always focused on proving himself whenever given a chance.<\/p>\n

“It was a very disappointing thing. Sometimes you’re in the team, sometimes you’re out. Sometimes you get a chance in the playing eleven, sometimes you don’t. Of course, it’s frustrating, and I was frustrated many times, no doubt. Some players are captain’s favourites. But that doesn’t matter much. You just have to prove yourself whenever you get a chance,” Mishra said.<\/p>\n

“Whenever I was frustrated, I thought about what I could improve on. Whether it was my fitness, batting, or bowling, I always focused on getting better. Whenever I got a chance to play for the Indian team, I performed well, and I’m very happy about that. I never shied away from hard work,” he added.<\/p>\n

Mishra primarily played under MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, comprising 52 international matches between his 2003 debut and his final outing in 2017.<\/p>\n

Mishra also opened up about his career-changing moment, which came in IPL 2008. He picked up a hat-trick against Deccan Chargers, dismissing the likes of Shahid Afridi and Herschelle Gibbs. His 5 for 17 in that match helped him return to the Indian team.<\/p>\n

“I’d say the defining moment was the hat-trick I took in the 2008 IPL, where I also took five wickets in the match. From there, I made a comeback to the Indian team. Before that, I was consistently performing well in domestic cricket, taking 35-45 wickets every season, but I couldn’t get back into the national team.<\/p>\n

“That IPL hat-trick changed things for me. I had also performed well in Syed Mushtaq Ali the preceding year taking 25 wickets, which helped me get an IPL contract (Delhi Daredevils).<\/p>\n

“After that hat-trick, I was back in the Indian team continuously and my career in T-20 also started. So, that hat-trick with five wickets in 2008 will be a defining moment of my life,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior India spinner Amit Mishra, who retired from all forms of cricket on Thursday, hinted at the selection…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[24208,137621,137620,137622,1406,730,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-398824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-amit-mishra","9":"tag-amit-mishra-retirement","10":"tag-amit-mishra-retires","11":"tag-amit-mishra-selection-bias","12":"tag-cricket","13":"tag-india","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115149346133964135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}