Ravichandran Ashwin delivered an 'uncomfortable' verdict on the selection choices made by the committee and questioned the strategy of Ajit Agarkar and Gautam Gambhir.
Rohit Sharma will be leading the team in the competition with Shubman Gill being his deputy. Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, and Rishabh Pant form a great batting core, while Hardik Pandya is the sole pace-bowling all-rounder in the squad.
Notably, Jasprit Bumrah is not part of the final squad as he has been ruled out due to a lower back injury, and has been replaced by Harshit Rana.
What I don’t understand is the number of spinners we are taking to Dubai - Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin was left confused with India's decision to take 5 spinners to UAE, and he spoke in detail on the matter on his official YouTube channel, Ash ki Baat. He elaborated:
"But five spinners in Dubai? I don’t know. I think we are one spinner too many if not two. The two left-arm spinners are your best all-rounders alongside Hardik Pandya. So both Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja are going to play. Hardik will also play and Kuldeep will play.
In the recently held ILT20, we saw that the ball was not turning that much - Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin further said that the pitches that were on offer in the recent edition of the ILT20 didn't provide too much help to the spinners. He elaborated:
Ravichandran Ashwin was also disappointed to see Yashasvi Jaiswal being dropped from the squad and said that the youngster's axing is quite unfortunate.
"Yashasvi was bringing water for the players. I was thinking what would be going on in his mind? He would have been happy that he would be in the Champions Trophy team. And now suddenly he is not in the team. It’s the same for anybody who misses out."
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