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India T20 World Cup squad Live Updates: There are a number of selection headaches for the selectors to resolve across the Indian team. 
India T20 World Cup squad Live Updates: The 2024 T20 World Cup is just over a month away, and the hottest topic in the Indian cricket community, despite the presence of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is how the 2007 champions will line up. BCCI’s chief of selection committee Ajit Agarkar is expected to announce India’s 15-member squad for the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 on Monday. But ahead of the big announcement, the former India cricketer, who reportedly flew from Spain to Delhi for Saturday’s IPL 2024 match between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals, will have an informal chat with captain Rohit Sharma on the possible squad for the tournament in June.…Read More
There are a number of selection headaches for the committee to resolve, chief of which would be whether struggling all-rounder Hardik Pandya can be included in the squad and defining Virat Kohli’s role amid veteran cricketers and experts wanting the former captain to open for India. This is would subsequently leave the selectors to pick one between Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill for the backup role.
Another major talking point is who among Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson and KL Rahul takes up the role of the wicketkeeper. Even veteran Dinesh Karthik has emerged as an outside contender for the spot. They would also have to resolve who will be trusted with the finisher’s role and whether Pandya can still remain in the lower order considering his rather disastrous bowling form in the 2024 IPL. While Pandya has shown flashes of his big-hitting prowess this season, his bowling has taken a hit and he has only bowled 19 overs out of a possible 36 in nine games for Mumbai Indians. As a designated finisher, he has hit only 10 sixes in these games, which is below par by every measure. The free-flowing bat-swing is completely missing in the 196 odd runs that he has scored in the tournament so far at a strike-rate of 142. What favours Pandya is the lack of a like-for-like replacement alternative for the selectors as Shivam Dube, who is also expected to board the New York-bound flight, hasn’t bowled for CSK at all this year. Pandya is also a far superior bowler than Dube. However, the latter’s current batting form (22 sixes in eight games) can’t be ignored either. The selectors will also be scratching their head over picking the bowling lineup, especially the pace attack to support Jasprit Bumrah.
India T20 World Cup squad Live Updates: It is pretty safe to assume that Rishabh Pant will be India’s primary wicketkeeper-batter. The race really is for the role of the backup wicketkeeper and the primary contenders for it are KL Rahul and Sanju Samson.
India T20 World Cup squad Live Updates: This IPL was expected to be just another tournament for Shubman Gill to showcase why he is ready to be a regular for India in all three formats. While he has become an established opener for India in Tests and ODIs owing to sensational performances over the last one and a half years, Gill hadn’t quite cemented himself in the T20 squad. This IPL was the chance for him to take that opener’s spot for which he was seen as the frontrunner but his indifferent form in his first season as captain of the Gujarat Titans has led to him falling behind in that race. Virat Kohli is now widely backed as Rohit Sharma’s opening partner with Yashasvi Jaiswal also seemingly ahead of Gill.
India T20 World Cup squad Live Updates: Virat Kohli has reacted to the criticism regarding his strike rate in the ongoing season of Indian Premier League after scoring a sublime half-century against Gujarat Titans at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. Kohli, who is holding the Orange Cap, breached the 500-run mark this season with his 70-run knock on Sunday evening.
“Not really, I think all the people who talk about strike rates and me not playing spin well are the ones who loves talking about these stuff [numbers]. But for me, it’s just about winning games for the team and there’s a reason why you do it for 15 years because you have done it day in and day out,” Kohli told broadcasters after the match.
India T20 World Cup squad Live Updates: Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya has scored 197 runs in nine matches at a strike rate of 151.54 with no half-centuries and picked four wickets at an economy rate of almost 12.
 
India T20 World Cup squad Live Updates: New Zealand, being the perpetual clean cut teacher’s pets, have become the first team to announce the squad for the T20 World Cup.  
Kane Williamson (C), Finn Allen, Trent Boult, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee. Travelling Reserve: Ben Sears
India T20 World Cup squad Live Updates: The 2024 Indian Premier League, apart from being a spectacle in itself, has been seen as a testing ground for players ahead of the T20 World Cup and thus far, it has thrown up quite a few interesting results. Chief of which would be Hardik Pandya, a regular in India’s white-ball squads whenever he is fully fit. However, there is now a real possibility of him not being a first choice in the playing XI considering his utterly disastrous form in the IPL with bat and ball. Then there is the question of whether Virat Kohli and if so, what happens to Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill. Will Rinku Singh somehow be dropped? Can Shivam Dube still be ignored despite his often superhuman performances with the bat for CSK? Can Yuzvendra Chahal be kept out of the squad? Rishabh Pant is expected to be the first-choice wicketkeeper but who will be his back up? Questions everywhere and the answers that the selectors are expected to give today are going to leave someone or the other unsatisfied. Such is the ways of the world and of World Cups.

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