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Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has raised questions over the India squad picked by the choice committee for the upcoming Champions Trophy. The ICC mega occasion is about to happen between February 19 and March 9, with Pakistan and Dubai being the hosts. India’s matches within the match will happen in United Arab Emirates after the crew determined to not journey to Pakistan. India had picked a provisional squad for the Champions Trophy forward of their ODI sequence towards England. It’s throughout the contests once they finalized their gamers.
The up to date India squad consists of as many 5 spinners in Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel and Washington Sundar. Jasprit Bumrah was named within the provisional squad however his unavailaibility attributable to damage noticed Harshit Rana being named as alternative. In the meantime, India dropped Yashasvi Jaiswal to rope in Chakravarthy within the remaining squad, making it a spin-heavy crew.
Ashwin raised doubts over India’s name of choosing so many spinners within the crew.
“What I don’t understand is the number of spinners we are taking to Dubai. 5 spinners and we have made Yashasvi Jaiswal sit out. Yeah I understand that we take 3 or 4 spinners for a tour. But 5 spinners in Dubai? I don’t know,” stated Ashwin in a video on his YouTube channel, as quoted by India At the moment.
“I think we are one spinner too many if not 2. The 2 left-arm spinners are your best all-rounders alongside Hardik Pandya. So both Axar and Jadeja are going to play. Hardik will also play and Kuldeep will play. If you want Varun Chakravarthy in the team, then you will have to make a pacer sit out and use Hardik as your second pacer. Else you will have to drop a spinner to bring in a 3rd seamer,” he added.
Speaking additional deep about India’s taking part in mixture, Ashwin expressed his dissatisfaction over the squad picked for the mega occasion. He additionally backed Kuldeep to comfortably make it to the taking part in XI.
“I don’t think there is any doubt that Kuldeep Yadav will walk into the team. So how will you make space for Varun. Is he bowling well? Of course. Either you bring in Varun and Kuldeep as a duo, which I feel would be good. But my question is, in Dubai, are you expecting the ball to turn? I feel a bit uncomfortable with the team,” stated Ashwin.
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