Wasim Jaffer mocks ICC T20I Team of the Decade, feels a robot picked the XI

Just like Jaffer, Aakash Chopra was also not impressed with ICC's decision to select only three 'proper' bowlers in the team.

Published - 28 Dec 2020, 10:44 IST | Updated - 28 Dec 2020, 10:44 IST

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Former India openers Wasim Jaffer and Aakash Chopra have taken a dig at the ICC for the recently-announced ICC T20I Team of the Decade. The ICC, on Sunday, announced the T20I as well as the ODI and Test team of the decades and as expected, the selections of the players especially in the T20I team has met with mixed reactions.

Fans and experts have criticised the ICC for ignoring several big names as the likes of Babar Azam, Jos Buttler, David Warner, Quinton de Kock and other eminent names failed to make the cut for the T20I team. Chopra and Jaffer, on the other hand, criticized the ICC for selecting just three specialist bowlers in the T20I Team of the Decade.

The team includes five specialist batsmen, one wicketkeeper-batsman, two all-rounders, and three specialist bowlers (1 spinner, 2 pacers). Rohit Sharma, Chris Gayle, Aaron Finch, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers are the specialist batsmen while MS Dhoni has been named as the wicketkeeper as well as captain.

Glenn Maxwell and Kieron Pollard are the all-rounders in the team while Lasith Malinga, Jasprit Bumrah, and Rashid Khan are the only frontline bowlers in the team. Unimpressed with the selection, Jaffer took to Twitter to mock ICC.

Keeping up with his reputation, the former batsman posted a hilarious MS Dhoni-inspired meme to troll the governing body of the game. “Only 3 frontline bowlers?! “Hey MS, who picked this team?”, wrote Jaffer before posting a picture of the former India skipper from this year’s IPL where he had famously said ‘definitely not (Jaffer changed the not to bot)’ after being asked whether IPL 2020 was his last as a player.

Here is the tweet from Wasim Jaffer:

Only 3 frontline bowlers?!🤔
"Hey MS, who picked this team?"#ICCAwards2020 #Dhoni https://t.co/D0msUVhQBo pic.twitter.com/gDxfsaPENx
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) December 27, 2020

Aakash Chopra’s views on T20I Team of the Decade:

Just like Jaffer, Aakash Chopra was also not impressed with ICC’s decision to select only three ‘proper’ bowlers in the team. The former cricketer-turned-commentator took to Twitter to express his surprise over the team-combination. In another tweet, he also cheekily pointed out that Dhoni would refuse to lead a team with only three frontline bowlers.

Here are the tweets from Aakash Chopra: