After going 18 innings in T20 internationals without a 50, Shubman Gill will miss the home T20 World Cup<\/p>\n
Test and one-day captain Shubman Gill has been omitted from India’s 15-member squad for next year’s home Twenty20 World Cup, \u200bwhile keeper-batter Ishan Kishan returns.<\/p>\n
Gill \u2060has gone 18 innings in T20 Internationals without a 50 and missed Friday’s match against South Africa with a foot injury.<\/p>\n
Sanju Samson has impressed in the limited opportunities and made a \u200cbreezy 37 \u200bas Abhishek Sharma’s opening partner replacing Gill in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n
Kishan \u200dwas recalled after he led Jharkhand’s successful campaign in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, smashing a hundred in Friday’s final against Haryana.<\/p>\n
The same squad will play a five-match home T20 series \u200bagainst New Zealand next month.<\/p>\n
Jasprit \u200cBumrah will lead India’s pace attack that also contains left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh.<\/p>\n
Varun \u200bChakaravarthy will spearhead the spin department, which also includes left-arm \u200dwrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav.<\/p>\n
India will also expect Hardik Pandya, their premier seam-bowling all-rounder, to play a crucial role in \u200btheir \u200btitle defence in the \u200btournament to be played from February \u200b7 to March 8 across eight venues in India and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
India squad: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel (vc), Rinku Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy, Washington Sundar, \u200dIshan Kishan (wk)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After going 18 innings in T20 internationals without a 50, Shubman Gill will miss the home T20 World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-360508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}