India’s T20 World Cup 2024 Team Announcement Live Updates: Will Yashasvi Jaiswal Block Shubman Gill’s Way In The Squad?

T20 WC 2024 Team Announcement Live: Here’s what Irfan Pathan thinks

“See, as far as I’m concerned, Indian openers should be Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma, purely because of the right-hand and left-hand combination. Don’t forget Yashasvi Jaiswal’s international strike rate is 160 and you need that, you need that firepower. If Virat opens up the batting, what happens is that it will allow the combination of 11 to be in a certain way, which you want. If that happens, you might see Shivam Dube playing, if he’s there in the squad,” said Irfan Pathan. 

T20 World Cup 2024 Team Announcement Live: Will Jaiswal take Gill’s spot

All eyes are on the announcement of the player, who will open alongside Rohit Sharma at the T20 World Cup 2024. Based on the current IPL form, both Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill are likely to lose the position of the openers with Virat Kohli being promoted to the No 1 position. Between Jaiswal and Gill, the former is more likely to get a spot at the marquee event. Jaiswal had a bittersweet start to the season but redeemed himself with a brilliant century. 

T20 World Cup 2024 Team Announcement Live: Will Mayank Yadav get a chance?

Young Lucknow Super Giants pacer Mayank Yadav stunned everyone with his terrific pace in the ongoing IPL. The 21-year-old pacer has consistently clocked deliveries over 150 kmph. He also bowled the fastest ball of the season at 156.7 kmph. However, he is currently out of action due to an injury. Despite giving a breathtaking performance, it is highly likely that he will be ignored as the selectors would not take the risk of taking a 21-year-old, inexperienced bowler to the big ICC event. 

T20 World Cup 2024 Team Announcement Live: Who will accompany Jasprit Bumrah?

Another big concern for the Indians selectors is to choose a perfect pacer to accompany Jasprit Bumrah. The Mumbai Indians pacer is in red-hot form and will surely make it to the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup. However, the other expected names like Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan, etc had an underwhelming outing so far. Some former cricketers have suggested the name of Arshdeep while many have backed Lucknow Super Giants pacer Mayank Yadav. 

T20 World Cup 2024 Team Announcement Live: Here’s what Aaron Finch thinks

Ahead of the T20 World Cup, former Australia batter Aaron Finch painted a grim picture about three stars who are battling poor form. “I have got my eye on two people, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Hardik Pandya. Two guys who haven’t been in the best form throughout this IPL so far and there is a bit of pressure building on both of them,” said Finch. 

T20 WC 2024 Team Announcement Live: Focus on Hardik Pandya’s form

All-rounder Hardik Pandya’s form is a big concern for the selectors currently. Hardik, who is leading Mumbai Indians in the ongoing IPL, is having mediocre outing with both bat and ball. So far, he has played eight matches and scored only 151 runs. With the ball, he has scalped four wickets at an economy of 10.94. The MI skipper is also going though a tough time as he has been constantly facing public criticism for replacing Rohit Sharma as the captain. However, it will be really interesting to see that how things will unfold. 

T20 WC 2024 Team Announcement Live: Rohit To Meet BCCI Selectors, Says Report

According to a report of Dainik Jagran, India skipper Rohit Sharma is likely to attend a meeting with BCCI selection committee chairman, Ajit Agarkar and other office bearers to discuss India’s 15-member squad. The meeting is likely to be held on Saturday in Delhi, where Rohit Sharma will be playing for Mumbai Indians against Delhi Capitals in the IPL 2024 match. 

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