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Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja retired from this format after winning the 2024 T20 World Cup to Team India. For this reason, they will not even play the T20 Asia Cup starting on 9 September. Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav and Akshar Patel will now be seen handling the responsibilities of the three players.
India had launched their first choice T20 team for the last time in the World Cup. Now after 15 months, players like Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Shubman Gill will be seen playing T20 together again in the Asia Cup after 15 months. On the other hand, the Pakistan team also dropped experienced Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan from the T20 format.
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Kohli became the player of the match in the last T20 Virat Kohli, the second top run scorer in Team India’s T20, said goodbye to the smallest format on 29 June 2024. On the same day, India defeated South Africa in the final of the T20 World Cup and won the title after 17 years. Kohli received the Player of the Match award for playing an important innings of 76 runs.
Virat made a T20 debut from India in 2010 and participated in every T20 World Cup from 2012. 3 times he was the top run scorer of the tournament. Player of the tournament was also made in 2014 and 2016. He was also the top run scorer of T20 Asia Cup and T20 World Cup history. In T20, Virat had the responsibility of handling the team in the top order. He took over the responsibility while opening in the last World Cup.
Will Shubman be able to handle Virat responsibility? Shubman Gill will now be seen taking over the responsibility of Virat Kohli in the T20 team. Shubman made her debut for India in 2023, but she was able to get a place in the playing-11 in the absence of Virat. He could not be a part of the team even in the last T20 World Cup.
Now Shubman has been made the vice -captain of the team in the Asia Cup and his playing in the top order is also confirmed. Shubman will also have a challenge to handle the team in a difficult situation and win important matches. He has so far scored 578 runs for India at a strike rate of around 139 in 21 T20s. During this, he also put 1 century and 3 fifty.
Rohit India’s top T20 run scorer Along with Virat, Rohit also retired after the T20 World Cup final. He retired in this format after becoming the world’s top run scorer and India won the World Cup after 17 years. In T20, he also used to lead Team India and open the responsibility of getting a fast start.
Rohit made a T20 debut from India in 2007 itself. He was the only player to win the World Cup as a player from Team India and as a captain. He played 9 World Cups from India and was the second top scorer of the team in the tournament. For the overall team, he scored 4231 runs in 159 matches at a strike rate of around 141. These included 5 centuries and 32 half -century.
Surya will captain Rohit’s captaincy Suryakumar Yadav was made the captain after Rohit in the T20 team. At the same time, Abhishek Sharma made the opening position his left hand batter. Surya was already part of the T20 team, but now he is also making the team a great lead under the captaincy. Under Surya’s captaincy, India now played 22 matches and won 18.
Surya batting at number 3 or 4 and keeps the team’s scoring rate increased. His name is 2598 runs in 83 matches so far at a strike rate of around 167. These included 4 centuries and 21 fifty. On the other hand, Abhishek has also managed to get India a blast on the opening position. He has 535 runs in 17 matches at a strike rate of 193.84. These include 2 centuries and 2 fifty. That is, Surya under captaincy and Abhishek in Opening will take over the responsibility of Rohit in the Asia Cup.
Jadeja retired after 6 World Cup Along with Rohit and Virat, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja also retired from the T20 World Cup. Jadeja used to bat in lower order when needed with left arm spin. After making a T20 debut in 2009, he played 6 T20 World Cups from Team India by 2024 and retired after receiving the trophy.
Jadeja also scored 54 wickets for India in 74 matches and scored 515 runs. Apart from batting and bowling, Jadeja was also the best fielder of the team. He had given the team turning points on fielding on several occasions. The shortage of Jadeja in batting-bowling will be fulfilled, but it is very difficult for Team India to meet their lack in fielding.
The letters will complete the shortage of Jadeja Akshar Patel will now play Jadeja as a spin all-rounder in the T20 team. Although Akshar was part of Jadeja as well as playing-11 in the last World Cup, Jadeja was also given priority on many occasions. Now after Jadeja’s retirement, Akshar will become the team’s first choice spin all -rounder.
Akshar has established itself in India’s white ball team. He has 71 wickets with 535 runs in 71 matches of the shortest format. In the T20 World Cup final, he had taken out the team from a difficult situation by making an important partnership with Kohli. In such a situation, the letters are the perfect replacement of Jadeja.
Babur-Rizwan was removed by strike rate The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) excluded experienced batter Babar Azam and wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan from its T20 squad. The team’s head coach Mike Hessen said that the T20 strike rate of both of them is very low, due to which the team is not able to play the attacking cricket. If Babur-Rizwan is to make a place in the team, then they will have to improve their strike rate.
Babur is the second top run scorer after the world after Rohit in the T20 format. He has 4223 runs for Pakistan in 128 T20s. During this time he also has 3 centuries and 36 fifty. However, he could not find a place in the squad due to scoring runs at a strike rate of 129.
In T20, Pakistan’s second top scorer Mohammad Rizwan was also excluded due to a low strike rate. He has 3414 runs in 106 matches at a strike rate of 125. These included 1 century and 30 fifty. He used to open for Pakistan along with Babur. However, now both were excluded from the squad.
Haris-Nawaz made it to Pakistan team In place of Babur and Rizwan, Pakistan included wicketkeeper Mohammad Haris, Batter Hasan Nawaz, Saim Ayub and Sahibzada Farhan in the T20 team.
- Haris has also played the 2022 T20 World Cup for Pakistan. His name is 422 runs in 27 T20s at a strike rate of 138. They have also set a century.
- Hasan Nawaz has scored 417 runs for Pakistan at a strike rate of around 167 in 18 T20s. He also has 1 century and 2 fifty in his name.
- Sahibzada Farhan made his T20 debut in 2018, but he could play only 19 matches. Among them, he has 378 runs at a strike rate of around 132. He has also put 3 fifty.
- Left hand opener Saim Ayub has confirmed his place in the Pakistan team. He has 799 runs in 40 matches at a strike rate of 138.
Possible playing-11 of both teams for Asia Cup
India: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav/Varun Chakraborty, Arshdeep Singh and Jaspreet Bumrah.
Pakistan: Salman Aga (captain), Fakhar Zaman, Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Hasan Nawaz, Mohammad Haris (wicketkeeper), Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf and Sufian Mukim/Abrar Ahmed.
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