Harbhajan Singh Names Two Cricketers Who Were Unfairly Not Selected In The India Squads
On Tuesday, BCCI announced the squads for the upcoming New Zealand T20I series and the India A Tour of South Africa. Harbhajan Singh criticised the selectors for leaving two names in both squads. In this article, we take a look at two cricketers named by Harbhajan Singh who were unfairly not selected for the New Zealand series and India A squad.
Squads for NZ series and India A squad announced
The New Zealand series will involve three T20I games before the Tests. The first T20I will happen at Jaipur on November 17th. India A squad will tour South Africa for three four-day games. The first game will start on 23rd November.
India’s T20I squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (Vice-Captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Avesh Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Harshal Patel, Mohd. Siraj
India ‘A’ squad for South Africa tour: Priyank Panchal (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Devdutt Padikkal, Sarfaraz Khan, Baba Aparajith, Upendra Yadav (wicket-keeper), K Gowtham, Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Umran Malik, Ishan Porel, Arzan Nagwaswalla
Harbhajan Singh calls out the selectors for not picking two players
In recent months, Bhajji has become quite vocal about player selections. When Yuzvendra Chahal was dropped for the T20 World Cup, he had said it was not a great decision. Similarly, he had words to say about the latest Indian squads.
Another top player not getting his dues @mandeeps12 forget team India not even in India A.selectors need to see some domestic matches records or else what’s th point having Ranji seasons.check his stats 👇last domestic season played.due to corona no cricket in 20/21 #shocking pic.twitter.com/UotDWxux11
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) November 9, 2021
Ranji season 2018/19 scored 854 and 2019/2020 scored 809 and also Ranji champion that year plus this year current form👇yet not getting picked even for India A team.can 🇮🇳selector tell him what else he need to do to ply for india apart from scoring runs #shame @ShelJackson27 pic.twitter.com/HcwQDwhGsZ
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) November 9, 2021
Bhajji felt that both Mandeep Singh and Sheldon Jackson must have been given a go at least for the India A Tour, if not for the series against the Kiwis. He explained that both players have been in good form in recent years and that there was no reason for them not being selected.