‘Rahul Tripathi will be a T20 superstar for India’ – Fans react as India announce T20I and ODI squads for New Zealand series
Jitesh Sharma stays in the T20 squad, Mukesh Kumar included.
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Jan 14, 2023 7:22 pm
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The squad for the upcoming T20I series between India and New Zealand were announced on January 13, Friday. The senior players, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, continue to be overlooked in the T20I squad. Hardik Pandya remains the captain in the T20I format. Sanju Samson is still out of the squad after he picked up an injury in the Sri Lanka series.
Jitesh Sharma will remain part of the squad as the backup keeping option. Harshal Patel has been left out. Kl Rahul and Axar Patel are not part of the New Zealand series due to family commitments. Prithvi Shaw has been added into the T20I squad on the back of his performances in the Ranji Trophy where he scored 379 runs off 393 balls against Assam and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy where he scored 332 runs from 10 games. Harshal Patel has been left out of the T20I squad.
Kuldeep Yadav has also been included in the T20I squad. Mukesh Kumar has also been drafted in. He missed out on being a part of the India squad in the Bangladesh Test series recently after he picked up an injury at the India A tour in Bangladesh. When it comes to the ODI squad, KS Bharat and Shahbaz Ahmed make the cut and come in for Rahul and Axar. Shardul Thakur comes into the ODIs against New Zealand after missing out in the Sri Lanka series. He has replaced Arshdeep Singh. Jasprit Bumrah who was earlier named in the ODI squad against Sri Lanka has been ruled out due to a back injury. He is on a long recovery path and will also miss the first two tests against Australia.
Backing Rahul Tripathi to be the next big thing in T20 for India. He certainly has the skill. It's up to him to show some temperament and be brave as luck favours the brave. #INDvsNZhttps://t.co/HzIarlQEhn
Once again @Ruutu1331 has been selected in T20Is against Kiwis. At least can we have him this time in the Playing XI ?? #INDvsNZ#BCCI if he's unable to make it to playing XI it's better not to select him for any series and let him play domestic series 🙂
Strongly agree that Ranji must be always 1st criteria to select any player in test squad,Sky is so good in limited over but can't agree with his selection in Test cricket over Ruturaj/sarfaraz/prithvi/Rahane/Priyank like players who r continue performing so good.#BCCI#INDvsNZ
