Former Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan took to Twitter on Tuesday, April 23, to pick India's top 3 players for this year's T20 World Cup 2024. It will be played from June 1 to 29 in the United States and West Indies. According to Pathan, India should start with Rohit Sharma, who won the Player of the Match award in the 2007 T20 World Cup final. And despite the noise about Yashasvi Jaiswal and his strike rate, Virat Kohli has been named to bat at No. 3 in the 20-man squad for the World Cup. The T20I should be a megaevent for the team.
India have been placed in Group A along with Pakistan, Ireland, Canada and USA in the T20 World Cup 2024 and will start their campaign against Ireland on June 5 in New York. The high-voltage match against Pakistan is scheduled to take place in New York on June 9.
Ahead of the announcement of India's squad for the T20 World Cup 2024, Pathan in an earlier post explained the reason behind the selection saying that Rohit, Jaiswal and Virat are India's top three batsmen and highlighted that Kohli's potential in T20Is Strike rate is even better than Chris. Gayle.
Now that World Cup is nearing. My top 3 for team India.
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) April 23, 2024
1) Rohit Sharma (in form as well as captain)
2) Yashasvi Jaiswal (been saying that he should be there even before his 100 purely cos he was performing well for team India before the ipl)
3) Virat Kohli. (Shouldn’t be…
Virat Kohli, the only batsman in the world to score more than 4000 runs in T20Is, has a strike rate of 138.15 in 117 T20Is, while Gayle finished his career with a strike rate of 137.50 in 79 matches.
In the current season of IPL, Kohli has scored 379 runs in the eight matches played so far and his strike rate is 150.40. The former Indian captain is leading the race for the Orange Cap despite his team's poor form in the current season.
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