calcutta [India]: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly believes the reason for the absence of slugger Rinku Singh in India’s 15-man ICC T20 World Cup squad is the addition of a fourth spinner.
At a press conference on Thursday, India captain Rohit Sharma said he wanted to include four spinners in the 15-player squad. He kept his cards close to his chest and didn’t reveal the reasons behind it yet, but it was clear that there was an action plan behind this decision.
While many cricketers backed Rinku to join the team, India decided to make the Kolkata Knight Riders star a touring substitute. Rinku scored 356 runs in 15 T20Is for India at an average of 89 and a strike rate of 176.24, barely making it to the bench.
Expressing his views on Rinku being snubbed by the team, Ganguly encouraged the 26-year-old.
“I think Rinku missed out because they wanted to go with another spinner. But Rinku is on standby, so fingers crossed. This is just the beginning of Rinku’s career. He will play a lot of games for India. I don’t think he should feel Frustrated by this,” Ganguly told reporters.
Talking about the overall selection, Ganguly praised the management and skipper Rohit for naming a “strong team” for the mega event.
“I think this is one of the fairest teams I have ever seen. I’m not saying the other teams are unfair. I think the selectors and Rohit have done a fantastic job in picking this side. But I think It’s a very strong team, a solid team,” he added.
Earlier on Thursday, Board of Control for Cricket in India chief selector Ajit Agarkar termed Rinku’s absence as one of the “toughest decisions” the selectors have to take and called the decision It is “unfortunate” for the 26-year-old batsman, who claimed that Rinku’s absence is one of the “toughest decisions” the selectors have to make. Was ruled out only because the team wanted to select four spinners.
“This is probably the toughest thing we have to discuss. Neither he nor Shubman Gill have done anything wrong in this matter. It’s about the combination. Like Rohit said, we don’t quite Determine what conditions we will get. So, we want to have enough options in the squad… I don’t think it has anything to do with Rinku Singh, it’s not just his fault. . We feel 15… at the end of the day, you can only choose 15,” Agarkar added.
The Indian team is placed in Group A of the ICC Championship along with arch-rivals Pakistan, Ireland, Canada and co-host United States.
India will begin their T20 World Cup journey against Ireland on June 5 at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York, followed by a thrilling match against Pakistan at the same venue on June 9. India will then face the United States and Canada on June 12 and 15 respectively.
Team India: Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd.Siraj
Subs: Shubman Gill, Linku Singh, Khalil Ahmed and Avish Khan.
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