T20 World Cup 2021: Best XI of omitted players

An ICC tournament is considered the most important tournament. Winning an ICC trophy is a dream for every budding cricketer. Thus, this is probably why the upcoming 2021 T20 World Cup (WC) is getting all the limelight.

Over the years, only the best of the best players have been able to excel in a T20 WC. Hence, their names go on to be written in the history books and are cherished forever. However, there are a lot of unlucky players who miss out on playing a particular edition.

Despite being skilled enough to win matches on their own, some players are unfortunate enough to not even feature in the squad. There are several players like these who due to various reasons, won’t be featuring in the upcoming T20 WC as well. So if one were to make a playing XI of such kind of players, which of them would feature in it?

Here’s a look at the best XI of players who are not playing T20 World Cup 2021:

1) Shikhar Dhawan

Shikhar Dhawan is arguably one of the best openers of this era. You wouldn’t find too many batters as impactful as well. The fact that the veteran was omitted from the Indian squad took everyone by surprise.

The Delhi opener has scored 1759 runs in 67 T20I games so far. His batting average and strike rate in this format are 27.92 and 126.36 respectively. This includes 11 fifties as well.

His experience would have been really handy in a marquee event like the T20 WC. Besides, he was superb in the recently concluded IPL 2021. Moreover, the opener was India’s captain in their last T20I series where he also scored the most number of runs in the series.