First T20: India Announced The 12 Member Team, Relying On Khaleel Instead Of Umesh

  First T20: India Announced The 12 Member Team, Relying On Khaleel Instead Of Umesh

• Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sunder also did not find the place in last-12.
• Rishabh Pant will be the wicket-taker for the first time in the T20 International.
• The first T-20 of the three-match series against Australia will be played in Brisbane on Wednesday.

Brisbane: India announced a 12-member squad for the first T-20 match against Australia on Tuesday. Team management has preferred Khalil Ahmed’s young talent on the experience of Umesh Yadav. India played their last T-20 against West Indies in Chennai. Manish Pandey and Washington Sunder were also included in that team, but this time they both failed to make the last-12 place. Apart from this, Shreyas Iyer will not be part of Team India in the first match. Rishabh Pant has been selected as the wicketkeeper in this match. He will play the wicket-keeper for the first time in the T20 format. So far he has played seven T20s. In all of them, he played as a batsman.

Kuldeep to replace Washington: In the last T20 against the West Indies, #Virat Kohli replacing Manish and Kuldeep Yadav replacing Washington Sunder have been included in the team. Kuldeep’s performance on the foreign field so far has been quite good. He has taken 29 wickets in 14 T-20 games. Of these, he played six T20s on foreign soil and took 15 wickets.

Manish’s performance against West Indies was poor: Umesh played his last T20 on 4 November in Kolkata against the West Indies. In it, he took a wicket of 36 runs. Manish, who is part of the Indian team in the T20 series against the West Indies, failed to make the last 12 His performance against the West Indies was disappointing. He scored 23 runs in three matches.

Shreyas, who scored a century against India C, will also sit out: Washington Sundar took a wicket for 33 runs in his last T20 match against the West Indies. On the other hand, Shreyas, who scored a century against India C from India B last month, has also not won the confidence of captain Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri. Shreyas played his last T20 game against Sri Lanka on 24 December last year in Mumbai. He made 30 runs in 32 balls.

12 member team: Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaspreet Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed, Yuzvendra Chahal.