Legendary Indian cricket staff batter Krishnamachari Srikkanth believes that each Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma might be a part of the T20 World Cup 2024 squad if they’re obtainable for choice. The 2 veteran cricketers haven’t performed T20I cricket for fairly a while and forward of the T20I sequence in opposition to Afghanistan, quite a lot of questions have been requested about their doable inclusion. Nevertheless, Srikkanth stated that each of them might be seeking to win the World Cup title and so they can’t be ignored for the competitors.
“Virat Kohli is a certainty. He’s in nice type. Rohit Sharma, possibly, is assured due to how he scored within the World Cup. He’ll regroup and attempt to do effectively within the IPL. If Rohit Sharma says I’m obtainable, you possibly can’t say you’ll drop him,” Srikkanth stated in his YouTube present.
“On the finish of the day, Rohit Sharma can be damage that he has misplaced a World Cup. He want to exit with a World Cup in his hand at the very least. He was there within the 2007 World Cup. He would need to do one thing related, win a World Cup, and exit.
“Virat Kohli would undoubtedly need to win a T20 World Cup. Furthermore, final 12 months solely the T20 World Cup occurred, 13 months again. Virat Kohli was in extraordinary type,” Srikkanth added.
In the meantime, former Indian opener Aakash Chopra stated that he feels that Workforce India will discipline an virtually an identical staff to that of the 2022 version of the event for the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup in West Indies and USA this 12 months, ranging from June onwards, with Rohit Sharma because the captain.
ICC introduced the schedule for the competitors on Friday. A brand new chapter will unfold in one of many oldest rivalries in cricket historical past as India will sq. off in opposition to Pakistan on June 9 in New York.
Talking on his YouTube channel, Aakash stated that he feels Rohit might be doing the captaincy within the event since Hardik Pandya‘s health is making it troublesome for the all-rounder to play at the moment.
“Hardik will in all probability not be the captain as a result of there is a matter concerning health. You aren’t enjoying at the moment. You twisted your ankle within the World Cup. You aren’t enjoying the Afghanistan sequence and you do not play Checks in any case, so you’ll straightaway play the IPL. It’s going in opposition to him,” stated Aakash.
“I really feel Rohit Sharma might be doing T20I captaincy and also will be the captain for the 2024 T20 World Cup. In case you had requested this query after the 2022 T20 World Cup, it was virtually sure he wouldn’t be the captain, contemplating the best way the staff carried out as we had been scoring 60 runs within the first 10 overs,” he added.
(With ANI inputs)
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