The BCCI secretary revealed that the selectors also factored in overseas experience as well when picking the T20 World Cup squad.
India’s squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024 has caused quite a storm among many fans across social media. Some big names missed out while some managed to get the ticket to the Americas. To answer the question on his thoughts on the current squad, the BCCI secretary had a very simple answer.
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In an interview with the Times of India, Jay Shah, the BCCI secretary had a long interaction regarding a variety of topics and one of those included the criteria for selection particularly for the T20 World Cup squad.
Rohit Sharma will lead the 15-man team for his first T20 World Cup and many including the BCCI secretary will be expecting the Men in Blue to maintain the same dominating brand of cricket as they did in the recently concluded 50-over World Cup in 2023 despite falling short at the last hurdle.
About the current group heading to the United States of America soon, Shah stated that he saw a fine balance in both experience and those who are in good touch at the moment. He also further commented that the selectors have not gone simply based on IPL performances but also on their experience playing overseas as well.
“It has a good balance between form and experience. The selectors cannot choose on the basis of IPL performance alone, as overseas experience is also necessary,” he said.
There were some big misses in the 15-man squad including the likes of Rinku Singh, and Shubman Gill among many others which caused quite the storm. But the current side also has a lot of names that they wanted to see in the list like that of Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Virat Kohli and more.
As the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League heads towards the knockouts, the players will also be preparing themselves to don the national colours once again and put in their best performance to help the nation get back the title that has eluded them for too long.
