Best XI of WC 2019 that might not feature in T20 World Cup 2020
These players have either not played T20Is for a long time or they've retired.
9. Kuldeep Yadav
No! This can’t happen. Surely not! I mean think about it. Kuldeep Yadav? Out of the T20 World Cup in Australia? The Chinaman? The bowler who was the apple of the eye of the team-management a short while ago? The bowler who has 35 wickets in 18 T20Is at an average of 12.97. Yep! 12.97. The bowler who bamboozled the likes of Taylor, Maxwell, du Plessis, Miller, Root, Bairstow, Babar, you name it, the who’s who of International cricket.
But, and this is a big BUT, he can’t bat. He can’t contribute with the bat in the lower-order. But, the question is if a guy can nip you out wickets at regular intervals; if he can run through the sides with his precocious skills ensuring that you eventually get a low target, why would he be required to bat then? That’s the equivalence of asking the likes of Rohit Sharma or Shikhar Dhawan to bowl in a game.
Yep! It’s an added advantage if you can have bowlers contributing with the bat at the backend of the innings but it shouldn’t be a criterion of selection for a bowler. For, if that were the case the specialist bowlers of the past like Glenn McGrath, Courtney Walsh or Curtly Ambrose wouldn’t have been selected in the team anyway.
Virat Kohli, in his press-conference, alluded to the fact that they needed more contribution from the lower-order while explaining the reasons for the omission of Kuldeep and Chahal. Wrist-spinners could be vital on the big grounds of Australia and ignoring them for bowlers who can bat a bit, could prove to be catastrophic for Team India.
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