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With the brand new yr, the main focus has shifted to the T20 World Cup, a title, which India have not gained since its inaugural version in 2007. Since the final T20 World Cup, a number of senior players together with Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have given the shortest format a miss, additionally holding the ODI World Cup in thoughts. Now that the 50-over World Cup is finished, the highlight is on the 2 seniors and whether or not they’ll play in the T20 World Cup or not, particularly because the children who’ve been given a run for a yr now in the shortest format have made a spot of their very own in the workforce.
As per a PTI report, each Kohli and Rohit need to play in the T20 World Cup and therefore the chief selector Ajit Agarkar will be leaving for South Africa to have a chat with each of them and get a clearer image forward of the T20 collection towards Afghanistan, the IPL after which the T20 World Cup. The report additional instructed that there may be a brand new captain for the T20 collection towards Afghanistan given each Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya are injured.
“Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya aren’t fit. The Afghanistan series won’t tell you anything. Everything will be decided based on the first month of IPL,” a senior BCCI supply was quoted as saying.Â
The report said that the BCCI and the selectors will keep watch over roughly 25-30 T20 specialists during the IPL earlier than a remaining name is made earlier than the announcement of the squad for the T20 World Cup. The ninth version of the T20 World Cup to be performed in the Caribbean and the United States is set to kick off on June 4 and can finish with the ultimate on June 30, in a window instantly after the IPL.
