Senior off-spinner Ashwin Ravichandran returned to India’s white-ball outfit after four years when he was included in the 15-member squad f...
Senior off-spinner Ashwin Ravichandran returned to India’s white-ball outfit after four years when he was included in the 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup alongside the fast-rising trio of recently-capped Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav and Varun Chakaravarthy.
Also making the squad was Axar Patel, as the selectors decided to pack the squad with spin-bowling utility options instead of extra pacers.
The 34-year-old Ashwin last played white-ball cricket for India in 2017 before being sidelined in favour of wrist spinners. However, he kept at it in the IPL as well for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket besides largely leading India’s spin attack in Test cricket and that has opened the door for his reentry, with Washington Sundar on injury list.
Kishan (23), Suryakumar (30) and Varun (30) have been rewarded for their consistent performance in the IPL and the trio has also impressed in the few opportunities they got with the Indian team.
The T20 World Cup starts October 17 in the UAE and Oman. The big names to be dropped were opener Shikhar Dhawan and leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. Rahul Chahar has been preferred over Chahal who was a near certainty in India’s limited-over squads until now. Dhawan has been overlooked with KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma and...
