BCCI announced Team India squad for T20 World Cup. Today The All-India Senior Selection Committee has picked the Indian squad for the ICC World Cup 2021 to be held in UAE and Oman. Ex-skipper MS Dhoni will join this team as mentor. Here is the official tweet from ICC and BCCI:
A return for Ravichandran Ashwin, three specialist seamers and MS Dhoni involved as a mentor.
Plenty of talking points in Indiaβs #T20WorldCup squad.
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— ICC (@ICC) September 9, 2021
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— BCCI (@BCCI) September 8, 2021
R Ashwin returns to the Indian T20I squad for the ICC T20 World Cup 2021. Ashwin last played a T20I in July 2017 against West Indies. He captained the Punjab team in the IPL in the 2018 and 2019 seasons, bagging 10 and 15 wickets respectively. Ashwin shifted base to Delhi Capitals in 2020 and picked up 13 wickets at an average of 30.07 and an economy of 7.66 in his first season for the side. He featured in five of the eight matches that the Capitals played in 2021, and managed a solitary wicket while he had an economy of 7.73.
While the wrist-spin duo of Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav has been left out for the multi-team event. Varun Chakravarthy who has impressed in the IPL has also been selected in the 15-member side with Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar and Axar Patel making up the spin department and all-rounders.
Shikhar Dhawan who recently captained the limited-overs side in Sri Lanka, is a notable absentee while the selectors also chose to leave out Prithvi Shaw. Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul are the main openers while skipper Virat Kohli is also an option at the top of the order.
Ishan Kishan who is an option as an opener apart from being a middle-order enforcer and Suryakumar Yadav were both included in the squad, while India opted for three specialist all-rounders in Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel. Krunal Pandya is the left-arm spinning all-rounder missed out.
Jasprit Bumrah will lead the pace attack with Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami being the other quicks. Pandya, who has resumed bowling since the Sri Lanka series, is the other pace option. Meanwhile, left-arm pacer T Natarajan doesn’t find a place.
India begin the T20 World Cup campaign against Pakistan on October 24 in Dubai. They’ll face New Zealand at the same venue on October 31 while they will take on Afghanistan in Abu Dhabi on November 3. India will play a total of five matches in the group stage, with their remaining games on November 5 and November 8 against two of the four teams that emerge from the qualifiers.
Indiaβs squad: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammad Shami
Standby players: Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Chahar and Shardul Thakur
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— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) September 8, 2021
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