Team India named their Squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup on Tuesday led by Captain Rohit Sharma and his deputy Hardik Pandya. Shubman Gill misses out in the 15-man squad. After their recent defeat against Australia in the ODI World Cup at home, the players will be determined to go one step ahead and clinch the trophy this time round.
Team India’s World Cup squad : Rohit Sharma (Captain), Hardik Pandya (Vice Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.
Reserves: Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed and Avesh Khan
Gavaskar on why Shubman Gill missed out on T20 WC 2024
Sunil Gavaskar felt a problem of plenty and Shubman Gill’s ‘patchy’ performances in IPL 2024 led to selectors only considering him as a reserve player in India’s T20 World Cup squad.
“That is the blessing that India has, they’ve got so many players. In fact, if you can make a second team, that team will also be capable of lifting this Cup with a bit of luck,” Gavaskar said.
“So, sometimes that happens, sometimes you have to leave a good player out, that’s what seems to have happened with Shubman Gill. Again, his form in the last few games has been patchy. He started the IPL very well but the last few matches have been patchy which has cost GT victories. Shubman Gill scores, GT have been winning. He has not been scoring, they have not been winning,” he added.
Gavaskar said he would have liked to see someone like left-arm pacer T Natarajan in the World Cup-bound squad.
“I was thinking more like T Natarajan, the left-hand pace bowler. He has been bowling exceedingly well, so thought he could have been in the team,” he said.
Gavaskar believed that the Rohit-led team might win the T20 World Cup provided the Indian team changed its “attitude” and “approach,” as they had not impressed in the previous two tournaments.
“There has been changes in attitude, changes in approach, which we saw in the 50-over World Cup (last year in India), and that augurs well for this (T20) World Cup as well,” he said.
Team India have not won the T20 World Cup since the inception of the Indian Premier League and this selected squad will be looking to change it this time around.