Ashish Nehra picks India's T20 World Cup Squad, Deepak Chahar excluded

With just few more days until India names their squad for the T20 World Cup 2022, the experts have already started naming their picks for the mega event starting next month in Australia. India did not have a very fruitful Asia Cup 2022, where two losses led to their exit from the tournament. Hence, it will be important that the right combination and players to be picked in the squads.  

India did not have the services of Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel due to injuries, and it proved to be a major drawback in Asia Cup 2022. They are expected to be fit for the T20 World Cup which will be a great boost for the Indian side while a call on Ravindra Jadeja’s surgery is yet to be taken. Mohammad Shami is a name, that has also been talked about after India’s recent struggles to pick up wickets with the new ball.

Meanwhile, former Indian pacer Ashish Nehra has named his squad for the Indian team, with no place for Deepak Chahar and Mohammed Shami. He picked Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul as his openers, while including three spinners in Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravichandran Ashwin.

Nehra said that Shami's name came to his mind but he noted that the selectors have been seeing him as Test specialist.  “One name, however, comes in my mind and that is Mohammed Shami. Being a Test specialist, he hasn’t attracted that much focus from the selectors. And I am not saying this because I saw him up and close in Gujarat Titans,” Nehra said.

"Not only Chahal and Jadeja are important, even Ravi Ashwin is also important. Even if he plays, he can make an impact,” he said while picking Chahal and Ashwin in the eleven. He then named his four pacers in Arshdeep Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar Harshal Patel and Jasprit Bumrah," he added while picking the spinners.

Ashish Nehra’s 15-man India Squad for T20 World Cup: Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravichandran Ashwin, Dinesh Karthik, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Hooda