Rohit Sharma ‘raises' hand on off-spinner's absence question in India's T20 WC squad, amuses Ajit Agarkar

During the property conference, Rohit was asked wherefore 4 spinners were chosen successful the 15-member squad. To this, Rohit answered successful his unsocial quirky style, "I decidedly wanted 4 spinners. But, I won't archer you the crushed now. Maybe I'll uncover it successful the archetypal property league successful the US."

On the akin lines, erstwhile a writer highlighted the lack of an-off spinner successful the squad and 'hopefully the skipper tin rotation his limb over', the Indian skipper raised his manus – indicating helium is an off-spinner connected the team.

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Rohit past replied, “Something that we discussed a lot. We discussed whether to person disconnected spinner oregon not. Washy hasn’t played a batch of cricket. And it was betwixt Ash and Axar… it was similar that. We though that having 2 near limb spinners and being doing well. Ashwin hasn’t played overmuch lately. Axar was successful bully signifier from 50 overs format erstwhile helium played those matches against AUS. So he’s been bowling good for India. It gives america that near handed enactment if we person to nonstop idiosyncratic successful them middle. And of course, a precise experienced player."

Though this amused Ajit Agarkar, but this is not the archetypal clip that Rohit indicated astir his bowling prowess.

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Earlier successful 2023, aft the Asia Cup squad announcement for India erstwhile the contented of deficiency of portion clip bowlers was raised, Agarkar had indicated some Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma tin rotation their arms implicit successful the 2023 World Cup.

Surprisingly, Rohit did vessel the past implicit successful the league signifier of ICC World Cup 2023 against Netherlands and picked up Teja Nidamanuru's wicket.

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India T20 World Cup 2024 Squad:

Rohit Sharma (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Hardik Pandya (VC), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.

Reserve – Rinku Singh, Shubman Gill, Khaleel Ahmed and Avesh Khan.

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Published: 02 May 2024, 10:44 PM IST