T20 WC 2024: Indian team announced for T20 World Cup 2024, two wicketkeepers, four all-rounders, five bowlers and 4 batsmen included
For T20 WC 2024, the Indian team announced its team on Tuesday, 29 April. This team includes two wicketkeepers, four all-rounders, five bowlers and four batsmen. Many famous faces have been dropped from this T20 World Cup 2024.
In which the highest expectation was that Rinku Singh, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul would be a part of T20 World Cup 2024. But Ajit Agarkar, chairman of the main selection committee, has put them in the reserve list.
India won the T20 World Cup in 2007, after that India has not won a single T20 World Cup. In 2022 also, India lost even after coming on the verge of winning the T20 World Cup. Now the question arises whether India will be able to win the T20 World Cup 2024 with this team.
What happened in T20 World Cup 2024 that Shivam Dubey got a chance and Rinku Singh was out
Shivam Dubey got a chance in T20 World Cup 2024 because he scored 385 runs in 9 matches while playing for Chennai in IPL 2024 and these include three half-centuries. Shivam Dubey has scored 276 runs in 14 innings of 21 international T20 cricket at a strike rate of 145, while in bowling, Shivam Dubey has taken 8 wickets in 19 innings of 21 matches.
Talking about Rinku Singh, Rinku Singh is an aggressive batsman who has made a different place in the hearts of the fans with his aggressive batting in IPL 2024. Rinku Singh has not got much chance to play in IPL 2024, whenever he has got a chance, he has got to play only from 5 balls to 10 balls and Rinku Singh is not even able to bowl, that is why as a preference, Ajit Agarkar, the chairman of the main selection committee, approved the name of Shivam Dubey.
Chief selection committee chairman Ajit Agarkar and Rohit Sharma made such a team for T20 WC 2024
4 batsmen
- Captain Rohit Sharma, SSC Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav and Virat Kohli are included as batsmen
4 all-rounders
- Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja are included as all-rounders.
2 wicketkeepers
- Delhi Capitals captain Rishabh Pant and Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson are included as wicketkeepers. Rishabh Pant is now making his comeback to international cricket after a car accident in 2023
5 bowlers
- Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj and Arshdeep are included as fast bowlers and Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav are included as spin bowlers.
T20 WC 2024 List
Rohit Sharma (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (Vice Captain) Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav
Shubman Gill and Khalil Ahmed, Avesh Khan and Rinku Singh will be the reserve players.