Legendary Indian pacer Venkatesh Prasad has said Ravindra Jadeja‘s miss from the ICC T20 World Cup is deplorable however India’s squad seems to be actually balanced for the marquee event. The dynamic all-rounder will miss out owing to an damage.
The tempo legend additionally felt that there’s a lot of variation within the present bowling assault however added he would have appreciated to see skilled pacer Mohammed Shami within the squad, who’s presently one of many standby gamers.
Venkatesh Prasad laments Mohammed Shami’s absence from the primary squad
Pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel are making their return to the facet for the World Cup and for Australia and South Africa residence sequence. Then again, Mohammed Shami and Deepak Chahar have been included within the squad for T20 World Cup as standby gamers and likewise characteristic in squads for the 2 residence sequence.
“It’s a balanced squad, actually good one. It has superb batters and all-rounders. Jadeja has missed out however would have added extra worth. Bowling seems to be superb. There are a number of variations. They’ve introduced Arshdeep Singh as a left-arm seamer, he brings a special angle. There may be skilled Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar. I might have cherished to see Shami although,” mentioned Prasad in an unique interview with ANI.
Gamers have been chosen solely primarily based on their performances within the home and worldwide circuit
Prasad additionally mentioned that selectors have gone with tried and examined gamers who’ve carried out effectively in home and worldwide cricket and in IPL, and due weightage has been given to performances.
“There may be expertise, steadiness. There may be T20 worldwide expertise, T20 expertise as effectively. The final time we received in T20 World Cup 2007, we had no expertise. However in comparison with that, the current gamers have a number of expertise below their belt and I’m hopeful that they are going to carry out effectively. There’s a excessive degree of talent,” he added.
