Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja retired from the format after helping Team India win the 2024 T20 World Cup. Because of this, they will not even play in the T20 Asia Cup starting on September 9. Shubhman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav and Akshar Patel will now be seen taking over the responsibilities of all three players.
India finally fielded its first choice T20 team in the World Cup. Now 15 months later, players like Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Shubhman Gill will once again be seen playing T20 with the Asia Cup. On the other hand, the Pakistan team has also dropped veteran Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan from the T20 format.
The story includes replacement players' T20 exhibitions and potential-11 players of both teams …
Kohli became Player of the Match in the last T20 Virat Kohli, the second highest run scorer in Team India's T20, said goodbye to the shortest format on June 29, 2024. On this day, India won the title 17 years after beating South Africa in the T20 World Cup final. Kohli received the Player of the Match award for playing an important innings of 76 runs.
Virat made a T20 debut for India in 2010 and has participated in every T20 World Cup since 2012. He was the top scorer of the tournament 3 times. Not only that, it also became the Player of the Tournament in 2014 and 2016. He was also the top scorer in the T20 Asia Cup and T20 World Cup history. Virat in the T20 had the responsibility of handling the team in the top order. He took over this responsibility while opening in the last World Cup.
Will Shubhman be responsible for Virat? Shubhman Gill will now be seen taking over Virat Kohli's responsibility in the T20 team. Shubham debuted for India in this format in 2023, but in the absence of Virat it was made in Playing-11. He could not even be part of the team in the last T20 World Cup.
Shubhman has now been made a vice-captain of the team in the Asia Cup and it is also certain to play in the top order. Shubhman will also face the challenge of handling the team and winning an important match in difficult situations. He has scored 578 runs for India at a strike rate of about 139 in 21 T20 matches so far. In the meantime he has also scored 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 after becoming the world's top run scorer in this format and 17 years after India gave the World Cup win. In the T20, he was leading India and took responsibility for a quick start while opening.
Rohit made a T20 debut for India in 2007. He is the only player to win the World Cup as a player and captain from Team India. He played 9 World Cups for India and was the team's second top scorer in the tournament. For the team, he scored 4231 runs at a strike rate of about 141 in 159 matches, including 5 centuries and 32 half centuries.
Surya will captain instead of Rohit After Rohit, Suryakumar Yadav has been made captain of the T20 team. Left -handed Better Abhishek Sharma handled the opening position. Surya was already part of the T20 team, but now he is leading the team well in the captaincy. India has now played 22 matches in Surya's captaincy and won 18.
Surya bats at number 3K4 and keeps the team's scoring rate higher. He has so far scored 2598 runs in 83 matches at a strike rate of about 167, including 4 centuries and 21 half centuries. On the other hand, the Abhishek has also managed to give India an explosive start to the opening position. He has scored 535 runs in 17 matches at a strike rate of 193.84. It includes 2 centuries and 2 half centuries, meaning that the captaincy will take over Rohit's responsibility in the Sun and the opening in the opening in the Asia Cup.
Jadeja retired after 6 World Cup Along with Rohit and Virat, star all -rounder Ravindra Jadeja also retired from the T20 World Cup. Jadeja was batting in a lower order with a left arm spin. After T20 debut in 2009, he played 6 T20 World Cup for Team India by 2024 and retired after winning the trophy.
Jadeja took 54 wickets for India in 74 matches and scored 515 runs. In addition to batting and bowling, Jadeja was the best fielder of the team. Often he gave a turning point to the team from fielding. The absence of Jadeja will be completed in batting and bowling, but it may seem very difficult for Team India to fulfill his absence in fielding.
The letter will be able to meet Jadeja's place Akshar Patel will now play as a spin all -rounder in the T20 team instead of Jadeja. Although the Akshar was part of the playing-11 with Jadeja in the last World Cup, Jadeja was often given a choice. Now after Jadeja's retirement, the character will be the first choice spin all -rounder.
Akshar has established itself in India's White Ball Team. He has taken 71 wickets in addition to scoring 535 runs in 71 matches of the shortest format. In the T20 World Cup final, he made the team out of a difficult situation with Kohli. In this case the character is the right option of Jadeja.
Babar-Riswan was released due to a strike rate The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) excluded veteran baters Babar Azam and wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan from his T20 team. The team's head coach Mike Hesson said the T20 strike rate of both was very low, so that the team could not play aggressive cricket. If Babar-Riswan wants to be in the team, he will have to improve his strike rate.
Babar is the second highest run scorer in the world after Rohit in T20 format. He has scored 4223 runs for Pakistan in 128 T20. In the meantime he has 3 centuries and 36 half centuries, though he could not get a place in the team due to a strike rate of 129.
Pakistan's second highest run scorer Mohammad Rizwan was also released due to a low strike rate in the T20. He has scored 3414 runs in 106 matches at a strike rate of 125, including 1 century and 30 half centuries. He was opening for Pakistan with Babar, though both have now been dropped from the team.
Haris-Nawaz made a place in the Pakistan team Instead of Babar and Rizwan, Pakistan included wicketkeeper Mohammad Haris, Better Hassan Nawaz, Sam Ayub and Sahibzada Farhan in the T20 team.
- Haris has also played 2022 T20 World Cup for Pakistan. He has scored 422 runs at a strike rate of 138 in 27 T20. He has also scored a century.
- Hassan Nawaz has scored 417 runs for Pakistan at a strike rate of about 167 in 18 T20. He also has 1 century and 2 half centuries.
- Sahibzada Farhan debuted in T20 in 2018, but he only played 19 matches. In this he has scored 378 runs at a strike rate of about 132. He has also scored 3 half centuries.
- Left opener Sam Ayub has set his place in the Pakistan team. He has scored 799 runs in 40 matches at a strike rate of 138.
Both team's potential playing-11 for the Asia Cup
India: Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Abhishek Sharma, Shubhman Gill, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav/Varun Chakraborty, Arshadeep Singh and Jasprit Bumrah.
Pakistan: Salman Aga (Captain), Fakhr Zaman, Sam Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Hassan Nawaz, Mohammad Haris (wicketkeeper), Mohammad Nawaz, Fahim Ashraf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf and Sufian Mukim/Abrar Ahmed.
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