The race for a place in the T20 World Cup squad is getting heated up in Team India as the 2024 edition of the Indian Premier League will have a final say for several players. The return of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in the recently concluded Afghanistan series has made it clear that the Indian team management, wants to continue with the senior duo in the shortest format.
Rohit also made a massive statement in the third T20I with a record-breaking century which makes him almost certain in the playing XI. Meanwhile, the race for the second opener’s spot is between Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill.
Chopra feels that Jaiswal is leading the race at the moment as Gill was dropped from the XI in the last two T20Is against Afghanistan.
“It’s clear that Yashasvi Jaiswal has run ahead of Shubman Gill. Yashasvi is ahead in the two-horse race, Gill is lagging slightly behind. Gill was played in the first match, dropped in the second, and wasn’t played in the third as well,” Chopra said on his YouTube channel.
Yashasvi has played 17 T20Is thus far in his career and scored 502 runs at an astonishing strike rate of 161.93 which includes a century and four half-century.
Meanwhile, Shubman is slightly behind him with 335 runs in 14 T20Is at a strike rate of 147.57, he has also scored a century but lacked consistency in the shortest format thus far.
The southpaw scored a cracking half-century in the second T20I where he scored an unbeaten 68 runs in 34 balls including 5 fours and 6 sixes.
Meanwhile, Chopra also suggested that the Indian team has backed Jaiswal in recent times as they also sent him to bat in the super over against Afghanistan in third T20I.
“Yashasvi was made to open in all three (last two) games. He was sent in the Super Over as well. The way Yashasvi is batting, it seems like he is not going anywhere. Considering what Yashasvi did in Indore and has done previously as well, he has become almost undroppable,” he added.
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