Former India batsman Robin Uthappa has mentioned senior gamers ought to have retired from the T20Is after the T20 World Cup in 2022. The previous cricketer’s feedback have come only a few days earlier than the likes of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will characterize Staff India within the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup 2024.
Rohit and Kohli didn’t play a single T20I for Staff India in 2023 and plenty of believed that the selectors had lastly moved on. With Rohit out, Hardik Pandya was main the T20I workforce and did a superb job as captain. Nevertheless, the selectors determined to recall the senior batters in January this yr earlier than together with them within the squad for the World Cup as nicely.
Rohit and Kohli’s return to the T20I facet after a niche of greater than a yr has continued to divide opinions and Robin Uthappa has now shared his views on the identical. The T20 World Cup-winning former batsman acknowledged that the senior gamers ought to have moved on from the T20Is after the final World Cup.
Uthappa additionally mentioned that the kids ought to have been most well-liked after impressing within the IPL. He singled out Shubman Gill, saying that the batsman ought to have been part of the India squad.Â
“I am gonna catch numerous flak for this, however I am going to take it. I feel they need to’ve moved on after the earlier World Cup itself,” Robin Uthappa mentioned whereas talking on JioCinema.
“I feel the kids ought to’ve performed on this World Cup. The senior gamers have had their go, and these guys are exhibiting true potential. The truth that they have been performing in IPL persistently … numerous these guys who’re performing now, the likes of Shubman Gill ought to be there,” Uthappa added.
India squad for the T20 World Cup:
Rohit Sharma shall be main Staff India within the T20 World Cup whereas Pandya has been named as his deputy. Whereas Gill has missed out, Yashasvi Jaiswal has been named as Rohit’s opening associate. The likes of Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Shivam Dube, and Sanju Samson would be the middle-order choices whereas Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel are the allrounders.
India squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Hardik Pandya (vc), 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, Mohd. Siraj
Reserves: Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed and Avesh Khan
