Ajit Agarkar: Team India is going to tour Zimbabwe next month. Both these teams will play a five-match T20 series from July 6. Let us tell you that recently BCCI announced the 15-member squad in view of the upcoming series. The command of the team has been handed over to Shubman Gill.
However, the name of a player is missing from this team, who is called the second “Hardik Pandya”. That is, a strong fast bowling all-rounder was ignored by chief selector Ajit Agarkar. Who is that player, let us know about him in detail.
Ajit Agarkar ignored this all-rounder
The selection committee led by Ajit Agarkar has prepared a team full of youth for the T20 series against Zimbabwe. Its command has been handed over to Shubman Gill. There are many batsmen, spinners and pacers in the squad. He played Nitish Kumar Reddy as an all-rounder.
However, Reddy got injured and was ruled out of the entire series. Shivam Dubey was included in his place. Amidst all this, the selectors forgot Venkatesh Iyer. A cricketer who was being described as India’s next best all-rounder after Hardik Pandya. Apart from this, the 29-year-old cricketer also had a great IPL 2024.
See the tweet here:
Squad: Hubman Gill (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Abhishek Sharma, Rinku Singh, Sanju Samson (WK), Dhruv Jurel (WK), Nitish Reddy, Riyan Parag, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Tushar Deshpande.#TeamIndia , #ZIMvIND
— BCCI (@BCCI) June 24, 2024
There was chaos in IPL 2024
The 17th edition was quite amazing for Venkatesh Iyer, who played IPL 2024 for Kolkata Knight Riders. The left-handed batsman scored 370 runs in 14 matches at an average of 46.50. During this, his strike rate was 158.80. Iyer scored 4 half-century innings.
If we look at Venkatesh Iyer’s international career, he made his debut for India in the year 2021. After this, he was dropped from the team after playing just 2 ODIs and 9 T20 matches. Let us tell you that he has 133 runs and 5 wickets to his name in T20 cricket.
Indian team for Zimbabwe tour:
Shubman Gill (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rituraj Gaikwad, Abhishek Sharma, Rinku Singh, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dubey, Riyan Parag, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Khalil Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar and Tushar Deshpande.
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