New Delhi: India’s frontline pacers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah will be back in action during the remaining three ODIs against the West Indies after a workload management break for four weeks.
It is learnt that the selection committee will name the squad for the six T20s against West Indies and Australia (three home and three away) in Pune on Friday.
It will be interesting to see if India captain Virat Kohli, whose workload management has been paramount for the selectors, will play the T20 Internationals against the West Indies. Kohli will be playing the full ODI series after having played two Test matches as per the 15-member squad announced by the BCCI on Thursday.
However, not many surprises are expected in the T20 set-up from the squads that played in the shortest format against Ireland and England earlier this year. Senior pacer Mohammed Shami has been dropped from the squad after giving away 81 and 59 runs in the two games.
Umesh Yadav, however, managed to retain his place in the squad after giving away 64 and 78 runs in the first two ODIs. The national selection committee had rested Bhuvneshswar and Bumrah after India’s Asia Cup triumph and they didn’t feature in the two-Test series against the Caribbean side.
But India’s first-choice pacers will be back in action at a time when the reserve pacers went for 320 plus in both the games on placid tracks.
Kedar unhappy
A ‘fit-again’ Kedar Jadhav was slightly taken aback after not being picked for the remaining three ODIs against the West Indies and said there was no communication over his non-exclusion.
Jadhav was drafted into the India A side midway into the Deodhar Trophy as the selectors wanted to assess his fitness before taking a call on his comeback. “I did not know this,” said Jadhav when asked if there was any communication over his selection.
“Let’s see. You are the first one to tell me this. I need to see why they have not picked me. I don’t know what the plan is now that I am not there in the team. Probably, I will be playing the Ranji Trophy,” said Jadhav.
