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ICC T20 World Cup 2021

Host India Hot Favourite

Saleque Sufi | banglanews24.com
Update: 2021-09-09 12:33:20
Host India Hot Favourite [photo collected]

Indian cricket now leaps and bounds in all formats. True they lost test championship to New Zealand yet IPL franchise and high quality well organised domestic cricket continues producing quality cricketer like flowing fountains. In ICC T20 world cup 2021 due to start at end of the month in Oman and UAE, India would be the greatest challenger of defending champions West Indies.

BCCI has just announced a very well balanced 15+3 =18 men’s squad. By the look of it the team has many match winners. Flamboyant batsmen, power hitters, quality pace bowlers, skill full spinners and many all rounders. T20 is gamble. You win some loose some. But on paper the blues would be hard nut to crack. Off course in the group of death with New Zealand, Pakistan, Afghanistan and possibly Bangladesh mouthwatering contest is expected in every match. Off course team India would have added advantage, as most of their players would be playing IPL in UAE just before the world Cup. UAE and Oman are the countries but India remains the host of ICC organised tournament. 

India's squad:

Virat Kohli (Capt), Rohit Sharma (VC), KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk.), Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami.
Stand By: Shreyas Iyer, Shardul Thakur, and Deepak Chahar.
Indian Icon Mahendra Singh Dhoni would be the mentor of the team.
 

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

The balanced squad comprises of six specialist batsmen, three genuine all rounders, three specialist spinners and three specialist pace bowlers. The notable omissions are Shikhar Dhawan, leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. The management preferred mystery spinner Varun Chakrawarthy and leg spinner Rahul Chahar. Ravichandra Ashwin now sitting out in the reserve bench in the test series against England is included. Surjakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan and Axar Patel would be appearing in their maiden world cup. 

India would start their campaign against archrival Pakistan on 24 October. The world is looking for this blockbuster encounter. The two formidable teams do not play bilaterally for a long time for reasons other than cricket. What an exciting match it would be. Off course New Zealand is also a very strong team. Even Bangladesh and Afghanistan can also spring surprise. But considering all pros and cons India would be the team to beat in the tournament. Unless some players grow fatigue from staying too long in bio bubble from too much cricket here and there India would be ideally positioned to go all the way. 

BDST: 1231 HRS, SEP 09, 2021
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