T20 World Cup 2021 has started, India’s team will play its first World Cup match against Pakistan on 24 October. Former Indian players VVS Laxman and Irfan Pathan have announced their playing XI for that match. Both the veterans have chosen largely similar teams, with many big names missing in the playing XI of both. The first big move that VVS and Irfan have taken in their playing XI is to play Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Both the players believe that Bhuvneshwar is an experienced fast bowler who can bowl well under pressure and help India win against Pakistan. After Bhuvneshwar Kumar, both the legends have replaced Ashwin with mystery spinner Varun Chakraborty in the team.
As the openers of the Indian team, both players have kept Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul in their team, including Virat Kohli at number 3. For No. 4, he once again made a very interesting decision where he replaced the in-form Ishan Kishan with Suryakumar Yadav in the team. Both the players have chosen Rishabh Pant at number 5. Apart from this, both VVS Laxman and Irfan Pathan have selected Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja as all-rounders at number 6-7.
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In the Indian bowling unit selected by the veterans, R. Ashwin, Rahul Chahar and Shardul Thakur have not found a place. He has included Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Varun Chakraborty as bowlers in the team. Let us tell you that in both the warm-up matches played by India in the World Cup, R. Ashwin had bowled amazingly and also took two wickets, even then he was not included in his team by VVS Laxman and Irfan Pathan.
The team selected by both the players is like this
Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah and Varun Chakraborty
