Former Indian cricket group wicket-keeper batter Deep Dasgupta mentioned that he was a ‘little stunned’ at Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma‘s return for the upcoming T20I collection towards Afghanistan. Rohit and Virat final performed a T20I for India again in November 2022 once they confronted England within the T20 World Cup 2022 semi-finals. Since then, they’ve prioritised the longer codecs however their return for the Afghanistan collection has offered a sneak peek into the group administration’s doable plans for the T20 World Cup 2024.
In a latest interplay, Dasgupta mentioned that he although t the group has moved on within the T20 format and identified that the principle criticism towards the veteran batters was their ‘lack of intent’.
“I believed that the group has moved on within the T20I format. I’m a bit of stunned. However the best way that Rohit Sharma has performed within the 50 over World Cup was nice. The primary criticism with the senior India gamers was the shortage of intent within the T20 format,” Dasgupta informed Star Sports activities.
Nevertheless, the previous cricketer was fast to level out that the pitches in West Indies could find yourself serving to spinners through the T20 World Cup 2024. In that scenario, the expertise of a batter like Kohli will be essential in negotiating the sluggish circumstances.
“Clearly we noticed that with Rohit and with Virat we’ve got to bear in mind what would be the pitches that we’d get in West Indies. Are we anticipating 180-200 pitches or one thing round 160s,” he added.
India’s Squad for 3 T20Is towards Afghanistan:Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar.
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