Focus on spinners, wicketkeepers

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah (convenor of selection committee) are also expected to be a part of the all-important selection by the committee

Focus on spinners, wicketkeepers

Chetan Sharma

Mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy and Rahul Chahar, with his fast leg-breaks, will fight it out for the additional tweaker’s slot when the selectors pick the Indian squad for next month’s ICC T20 World Cup in a couple of days.

It is expected that the Chetan Sharma-led selection committee will meet at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai and link up with skipper Virat Kohli in Manchester and coach Ravi Shastri in London either on Tuesday or more likely on Wednesday.

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah (convenor of selection committee) are also expected to be a part of the all-important selection by the committee.

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While most of the teams are announcing 15-member squads, the BCCI is expected to announce either an 18 or 20-member squad as the ICC will allow a squad strength of 30, instead of 23 in earlier editions, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Varun or Rahul?

Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravindra Jadeja are two spinners who are all but sure of their slots and it could well be a toss-up between Chakravarthy, who has had good IPL runs and Rahul, who impressed in the recent tour of Sri Lanka.

Ishan, Sanju in fray

Ishan Kishan, with some good performances for India on the recent tour of Sri Lanka, is expected to pip the highly-rated-but-under-performing Sanju Samson.

Suryakumar Yadav can be called a certainty while Shreyas Iyer will get his rightful place back in the squad. For the extra opener’s slot after Rohit Sharma and Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan with good back-to-back IPLs, and an in-form Prithvi Shaw will fight for a place. In case of a 20-member squad, both might get a look-in.

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