Sunil Gavaskar picks Team India's playing XI : There is only one day left for the start of Team India's campaign in the T20 World Cup. India and Ireland will lock horns at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York on June 5. It remains to be seen which team India will field in the match. Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar.
Gavaskar has left out Arshdeep Singh from the playing XI while all-rounder Shivam Dube has been kept in the team. Gavaskar also highlighted the batting position of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will open.
Former India batsman Sunil Gavaskar has named Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma as the openers in his playing XI. Yashasvi Jaiswal is third on the list. The fourth name is Suryakumar Yadav and the fifth name is Rishabh Pant. Gavaskar has preferred Pant over Sanju Samson as the wicketkeeper-batsman and picked Hardik Pandya at number six.
Shivam Dube and the bowlers Little Master Sunil Gavaskar has picked Ravindra Jadeja at number seven after Hardik Pandya. Apart from this, he has given a chance to Shivam Dube at number eight. Shivam Dube took 2 wickets in the only warm-up game against Bangladesh. However, he couldn't do much with the bat. Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj and Kuldeep Yadav are the pacemen in the squad.
