T20 World Cup squad: Hardik Pandya captain, Virat kohli and Rohit Sharma out

Now that the IPL 2022 is over, the focus would switch to international cricket and with the T20 World Cup coming up later in the year the final preparations for teams would begin. T20 World Cup squad: Hardik Pandya captain, Virat kohli and Rohit Sharma out. Former cricketer Aakash Chopra’s picked his India T20 World Cup squad.

There was no place for captain Rohit Sharma, former captain Virat Kohli, wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant and star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja in former cricketer Aakash Chopra’s India T20 World Cup squad based on IPL performances. Chopra picked Hardik Pandya as the captain of his India T20 World Cup side based on his IPL achievements.

Hardik Pandya led Gujarat Titans to their first-ever IPL title on debut. Barring KL Rahul, none of India’s big guns including Rohit and Virat had a productive IPL 2022. And it reflected in Chopra’s team. The former India opener picked KL Rahul and Ishan Kishan as his openers.

“The first name I am keeping is KL Rahul. He can play till 15-17 overs, he is a T20 gun batter and scored more than 600 runs this year. I have kept Ishan Kishan along with him. If you see his numbers, you will say it was not that bad a season for Ishan Kishan,” Chopra said on his YouTube channel.

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“After that, my Player of the Tournament… I have made Hardik Pandya the captain of the team. He can play in the middle and be a finisher as well. After that, I have given a spot to Dinesh Karthik and he is my wicketkeeper as well. He has run at a strike rate of 180-190 and finished a lot of matches,” he added.

Aakash Chopra India T20 World Cup squad: KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Rahul Tripathi, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (c), Dinesh Karthik, Krunal Pandya, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Sanju Samson, Deepak Hooda, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshal Patel, Jasprit Bumrah.