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‘WC final to kheloge naa munna’ – Fans react as Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma make T20I comeback for three-match series against Afghanistan
India’s squad for the three-match T20I series against Afghanistan has been announced. Both teams will play with each other on January 11,14, and 17. Ahead of the T20 World Cup 2024, this is their last series. Even though players from both teams will play in the IPL 2024, these players will play each other as a team only in this series.
Meanwhile, talking about the Men In Blue, all-rounder Hardik Pandya, who was touted as the next T20I captain, continues to be ruled out. He got injured during the ODI World Cup 2023 and has not recovered as of now. On the other hand, Suryakumar Yadav, who got injured in the third T20I against South Africa, is also ruled out.
Apart from him, Ruturaj Gaikwad who got injured during the ODI series against the Proteas, continues to be ruled out. Meanwhile, the final squad for the series is announced. It is expected that the same squad will be part of the T20 World Cup.
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli make their comeback in the shortest format
Meanwhile, the India skipper has made his comeback alongside his predecessor, Kohli. Both players last played a T20I against England in the 2022 edition’s semifinal. They were asked to concentrate on the ODI format for the ODI World Cup.
Rohit Sharma (C), S Gill, Y Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, W Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar
Afghanistan squad
Ibrahim Zadran (capt), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ikram Alikhil (wk), Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Janat, Azmaullah Omarzai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazal Haq Farooqi, Fareed Ahmad, Naveen-ul-Haq, Noor Ahmad, Mohammad Saleem, Qais Ahmad, Gulbadin Naib and Rashid Khan.
This is how Twitter reacted
KL Rahul dropped from the T20I team after two World Cups to forget, but there’s a player who did even worse, but he’s back in the squad, that too as a captain!
Typical @BCCI move! Lmao
— Shivani Shukla (@iShivani_Shukla) January 7, 2024
– Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are back in India’s T20I squad, for the first time since the 2022 T20 World Cup.
– No Ishan Kishan in the squad, isn’t it strange, unless the selectors don’t think he makes the cut in the lower order as a batter.— Rahul Rawat (@rawatrahul9) January 7, 2024
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli both in the squad for the Afghanistan T20i series. Both are back.😭♥️
— Bhawana (@bhawnakohli5) January 7, 2024
Kl Rahul and Shreyas Iyer have been dropped from Team India T20I squad.
– Siraj and Bumrah have been rested.
– No info about Jadeja and others.#INDvAFG pic.twitter.com/ARYLLrVdkB
— Cric Point (@RealCricPoint) January 7, 2024
Expected one from Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul in the squad for the Afghanistan T20I series. pic.twitter.com/yyLzu0f5pr
— R A T N I S H (@LoyalSachinFan) January 7, 2024
KL Rahul’s name isn’t there in the squad for the T20i series against Afghanistan. He’s still in South Africa, enjoying off days.
It hurts yaar. Gonna miss you in this format, my hero! pic.twitter.com/DtuNp3xuSn
— Juman Sarma (@cool_rahulfan) January 7, 2024
Virat Kohli is back after several speculations from random nobody accounts.
No point in presuming things and jumping the gun until the squad is officially announced. Theories are many..but official word is just one.
This is Indian cricket, not Big Boss 🤷
— Anuj Nitin Prabhu (@APTalksCricket) January 7, 2024
BCCI backing Rohit Sharma in T20i’s even after disastrous T20wc campaigns but they dropped Rahane and pujara from test squad after 1 year failure. Never Forget Never Forgive
— 𝐒𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐚𝐬𝐌𝐒𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧™ (@Itzshreyas07) January 7, 2024
Back into the T20i squad ❤️ pic.twitter.com/vl8DJp5QIy
— All About Cricket (@allaboutcric_) January 7, 2024
As Rohit Sharma is back in the squad, let’s watch the legendry ‘ Sharma has done it ! ‘ clip once again ! pic.twitter.com/dxvmpzVLIm
— VIVEK. (@NotOutVivek) January 7, 2024