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The Asia Cup T20 cricket tournament will be played from 9 September this year. The last date for announcing the 17 -member team is 19 August. Pakistan has also announced its team. In such a situation, the big question is, which 17 players will get a chance in the Indian team?
India’s possible team in 5 points …
1. Will Shubman, be famous among the batsmen? Suryakumar Yadav is the captain of the T20 team, so his place is fixed. Now the team has to choose 4 to 6 more players for the position of batsmen. Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rituraj Gaikwad, Rinku Singh, Ryan Parag and Shreyas Iyer are contenders for these positions.
Shubman, Yashasvi and Shreyas were not selected in the last T20 series against England, but the three players showed their strong form in the IPL. However, only 1 or 2 of these are seen getting a place in the team.
Abhishek and Tilak are ranked top-2 of the T20 batter ranking and their place is also fixed. The team will give any one to one of Parag or Rinku. That is, 4 more batsmen can find a place in the squad.

2. Ishaan-Rahul also present with Samson in the wicketkeeper Sanju Samson is the first choice for wicketkeeper position, he has scored 3 T20 centuries for India in the last 1 year. Rishabh Pant would remain best as his option, but he will not be able to play the tournament due to injury. In such a situation, options are left in the form of Dhruv Jurael, Jitesh Sharma and Prabhasimran.
Jurael got a chance in the last series, while Jitesh and Prabhasimran are in excellent form. However, in view of the previous team, Jurael has more possibilities of getting a chance. Apart from these, Ishaan Kishan and KL Rahul are also in the race, but both wicketkeepers play in the top order position. Any of these will get a chance only when Samson or any opener will be Inzard. There are already 3 contenders in the form of Abhishek, Yashasvi and Shubman, apart from Samson on the opening position. In such a situation, Ishaan and Rahul are difficult to join.

3. Hardik in all -rounders, replaced by letter India have 5 all -rounders as Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Washington Sundar and Nitish Kumar Reddy. Head coach Gautam Gambhir gives more attention to all -rounders in all format teams, so the five players can get a chance in the Asia Cup team. If one of these needs to be excluded, then one of the beautiful or reddy can be excluded.

4. Will there be Bumrah in the bowlers or not? As an option for fast bowlers, India has options for Arshdeep Singh, Jaspreet Bumrah, Harshit Rana, famous Krishna, Mohammad Siraj and Mohammed Shami. Bumrah was not fed 2 matches in the England series due to workload, so he is also fit for the Asia Cup.
Along with Bumrah, Arshdeep will also get a chance in the team. In the remaining 4 pacers, any 2 can be given a chance. Siraj is more likely to get rest. At the same time, the form of famous and joy in IPL was excellent. Shami is also fit, but he can now be discharged from the T20 team.
Spin bowlers have 2 all -rounders as letters and beautiful. Apart from these, Full Time Spinners have options for Kuldeep Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi and Varun Chakraborty. If there is a place in the squad, the three will get a chance. If any 2 had to be selected, Bishnoi can be excluded. There will definitely be 2 specialist spinners in the team.

5. Who will be the vice -captain? After winning the T20 World Cup last year, Team India visited Zimbabwe. Here Rituraj Gaikwad and Shubman Gill captained the team, in most of the match, Shubman was the leader. The next series took place from Sri Lanka, here Gill was given the responsibility of sub -captaincy.
After the Sri Lanka series, India played T20 series from South Africa and England. In these, Shubman was given rest, due to which Akshar Patel was made the vice -captain. Now the big question is whether Shubman will get a sub captaincy in the Asia Cup or the letter?
Shubman will get a chance in the team as well? This is also a big question, because the final of the tournament is on September 28, Team India has to play a Test series from West Indies only 3 days, in which Shubman will captain it. Given this series, Yashsvi, Sundar, Rahul and Jurael can also be excluded. The four players are also members of the Test team.
Possible squad for Asia Cup Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Shubman Gill, Dhruv Juril/Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Ryan Parag, Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, famous Krishna, Jasprit Bumara.