In what was a surprising revelation for some India followers, a report revealed in The Telegraph stated that Ajit Agarkar-led choice panel are contemplating dropping batting maestro Virat Kohli from the T20 World Cup 2024 squad. Not to neglect, Kohli didn’t play T20Is for 14 months. He featured for India within the three T20Is towards Afghanistan in January for the primary time since 2022 T20 World Cup the place India completed as semifinalists. It has been reported that selectors really feel sluggish wickets in West Indies won’t swimsuit his batting.
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Kohli has not been capable of cope up with he demans of T20 batting, the report had stated, including that he was advised to bat aggressively in the course of the India Vs Afghanistan sequence and all that he might handle have been scores of 29 and 0.
It is felt that kids like Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma and Suryakumar Yadav are extra fitted to situations in West Indies, the place some video games of the championship will likely be performed.
Reacting to the report, former Pakistan pacer Mohammad Irfan, who had numerous onfield spats with Kohli previously, backed the star batter, saying that those that are asking for Kohli’s exclusion belong in gully cricket.
“I don’t have any second thoughts about it, you can’t make your team without Virat Kohli because he is a very big batsman. We all saw what he did in the ODI World Cup last year, Virat Kohli won 3-4 matches in the World Cup for India on his own. If Kohli didn’t step up on that occasion, India would have lost 3-4 matches including group-stage matches against Australia and New Zealand where India lost early wickets. He finished the match on his own,” Irfan stated on News24.
“He won the matches in recent times, it’s not fair to raise questions on his place. Those questioning Virat Kohli’s place in the T20 World Cup belong in gully cricket,” he added.
