Former Indian opener and current cricket expert Akash Chopra has selected his Indian team for the World Cup 2023. He has dropped players like Tilak Verma, Yuzvendra Chahal, Famous Krishna and Sanju Samson from Team India’s World Cup squad. Let us tell you that there is a whole month left for the start of the World Cup 2023, according to the ICC guidelines, today is the last day to announce the World Cup team. BCCI may announce India’s provisional squad for the World Cup today around 1.30 pm.
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The provisional squad means that the BCCI may make changes to the squad in the next few days. According to ICC rules, all teams will be allowed to make changes to their squads without any permission till September 27. If a team has to change its squad after this, it will have to take the ICC’s approval.
As for Akash Chopra’s World Cup squad, he has selected 5 specialist batsmen, 2 wicket keepers, 4 all rounders and 4 specialist bowlers.
Among the batsmen, the former Indian opener has picked skipper Rohit Sharma in a line-up that includes Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer and Suryakumar Yadav.
While KL Rahul and Ishan Kishan will be the two wicket keeper options.
Apart from Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja, Akash Patel and Shardul Thakur will play the role of all-rounders in Akash Chopra’s team. The specialist bowlers will be Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami and Mohammad Siraj.
Akash Chopra has not picked Tilak Verma in his squad, who recently had a brilliant performance in the West Indies tour to earn a place in the Asia Cup squad.
Akash Chopra said about Tilak Varma, ‘I don’t think Tilak Varma will come because you haven’t used him at all. But Tilak Verma can prove to be a good option, let me tell you why? Not because he batted well against the West Indies. You picked him in the middle order after looking at some lefty and bowling options. Suryakumar Yadav cannot give these things. You can choose any one of these two. But I think it will not be Tilak Verma.
Akash Chopra’s Indian World Cup 2023 Team- Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Mohammad Shami, Shardul Thakur, Suryakumar Yadav.