ICC Cricket T20 World Cup-2021: R Ashwin enters, Dhawan and Chahal leave the Indian team!

The senior selection committee of the Cricket Control Board in India (BCCI) has announced the 15-member Indian team for the ICC T20-2021 World Cup starting October 17, 2021 in Oman and United Arab Emirates. The final of the tournament is scheduled for November 14, 2021. Indian captain for all formats, Virat Kohli, will lead the team with the rather strange introduction of MS Dhoni as Team Mentor – how is he going to perform that duty in the presence of all the coaches is something left to the imagination – perhaps this is being achieved thanks to Dhoni’s tremendous track record as the former Indian patron, his excellent relationship with Virat Kohli and that he will be there anyway due to the staging of the remaining part of the IPL (Indian Premier League) -2021 which also moved to the United Arab Emirates.

This tournament is actually the delayed version of the ICC T20-2020 World Cup that was originally scheduled in Australia, but had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was later scheduled in India during the same period, but due to The danger of a third wave of the pandemic in India, the International Cricket Council (ICC) eventually moved it to the United Arab Emirates with some matches to be played in Oman. IPL-2021 too, which was played in just three venues in India, had to be stopped midway due to the disastrous second wave of COVID-19 and was then scheduled in the United Arab Emirates starting on September 19, 2021. Before we move on to the match structure in the ICC T20-2021 World Cup, let’s take a look at the Indian team selected for the tournament.

Team India for ICC World Cup T20-2021: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma (Vice-captain), KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (Goalkeeper), Ishan Kishan (Goalkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami.

Reserve players: Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Chahar and Shardul Thakur.

The team seems balanced and mostly along the lines expected with KL Rahul probably starting with Vice Captain Rohit Sharma; of course, reserve goalkeeper Ishan Kishan is also an IPL starter. Here comes the surprising omission of Shikhar Dhawan, who had been Rohit’s regular opening partner and whose injury greatly hampered India’s progress in the ICC-2019 World Cup. Maybe he didn’t get the final call due to his recent somewhat not-too-good record and also the fact that KL Rahul was doing well as a starter in the IPL. However, it must be said that Rahul has basically been a test starter who was denied a spot until the series against England where he justified his selection; But even if he does get going in the shorter format he often fails to get the momentum the way Dhawan does, and that often hampers the team’s chances of winning. Therefore, the decision to abandon Dhawan is fraught with dangers. If Ishan Kishan plays, there will be two goalkeepers in the team, as Rishabh Pant cannot be removed.

Similarly, the inclusion of Ravichandran Ashwin comes as a surprise considering the fact that he has been India’s best test spinner as of late and yet did not play in the test series against England. Perhaps the UAE’s slow and often changing pitches will be factored in for your selection alongside up-and-coming spinners Rahul Chahar, Axar Patel and Varun Chakravarthy. The final eleven would depend on the IPL, because all these players will be there playing for their respective teams. Yazuvendra Chahal’s omission is not much of a surprise due to her erratic displays in various matches. The three regular and experienced fast bowlers from India are obviously on the team with Hardik Pandya to help them as needed.

There will be two rounds in the tournament: the first, starting on October 17, 2021, is the qualifying round of 8 teams that have been formed into two groups with the top two teams from each group entering the second round of Super -12 starting from October 23. It should be noted that India, being the first hosts, qualified for the Super-12 immediately, and 7 of the other 9 teams in the ICC classification also qualified directly for the second round. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh failed to qualify as they were at the bottom of the ICC rankings, and both teams feature in both qualifying groups. Other teams include Ireland, the Netherlands, Scotland, Namibia, Oman and Papua New Guinea, the latest team to play in the World Cup for the first time. Most of the qualifying matches will be played in Oman.

In the Super-12 stage there will also be two groups of six teams each with India and Pakistan located in Group 2. Qualified teams are marked as A1, A2 and B1, B2. All group matches will be played in free-for-all matches within each group respectively and the best two teams from each group will enter the semifinal phase, from which the knockout phase will be until the final on November 14, 2021. With the IPL -2021 matches to be played there until October 15, 2021. It would be interesting to see if this bonanza tournament played in the same format would help cricketers better prepare for the big international competition or tire them out. , including some of the most. -Indian players played. It would also be curious if all international teams would allow their best players to play in the IPL or take them to special training sessions. Whatever the setting, cricket lovers will enjoy some great cricket with the United Arab Emirates, thankfully becoming a safe hotspot for cricket.