'Selection will not be from IPL but from here', said captain Rohit after the defeat

IND vs SL: After the embarrassing defeat in the ODI series against Sri Lanka, Indian captain Rohit Sharma has emphasized the importance of domestic cricket. Team India won the T20I series on the Sri Lanka tour but lost the ODI series 0-2. After 1997, Sri Lanka managed to defeat Team India in the ODI series for the first time. After this crushing defeat, Rohit Sharma talked about the importance of tournaments like Ranji Trophy for selection in the Test team. Also, the Indian captain emphasized on every player participating in domestic cricket despite the success of IPL so that talent can be honed.

Rohit said in the post-match conference, "Our goal has always been that the players who are available should play Ranji Trophy. Our domestic cricket is the backbone of our international cricket. Many players who are now representing the country have come by playing domestic cricket, so our domestic cricket is important for everyone. We want to ensure that it remains competitive."

IPL is also India's tournament

He said, "We get players not from IPL but from the domestic circuit. When you select players for Test and ODI cricket, there is a lot of discussion on who is doing well in Ranji Trophy, ODI format, Syed Mushtaq Ali and other such competitions."

Further, the Indian captain talked about IPL and highlighted his challenges of the tournament. He said that IPL is also India's tournament and one has to perform well in every domestic tournament to get selected for India. He said, "IPL, of course, is a format where the challenges are different. It is the competition of both. IPL is also our cricket - it is the Indian Premier League (IPL). At the end of the day, whoever performs well in all these tournaments will eventually be selected."