I don’t know what else Yashasvi Jaiswal has to do to get into the team: Dilip Vengsarkar

Former Indian captain Dilip Vengsarkar has opened up on the Indian opening batter Yashasvi Jaiswal’s snub from the Indian T20I side for the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup 2026 campaign, being played in India and Sri Lanka.

Jaiswal, who is one of the six Indian batters to have scored a century across three formats of the game, has been sidelined for Ishan Kishan, who is currently plying his trade in the showpiece event ahead of Sanju Samson.

“It is unfortunate that Yashasvi is being left out time and again for no fault of his. He has been in tremendous form across all formats of the game, and I don’t know what else he has to do to get into the team," Vengsarkar said as quoted by PTI.

For the unversed, Jaiswal last played a T20I in Sri Lanka way back in July 2024, with his last five T20I scores reading 93, 12, 40, 30, and 10 at a strike rate of close to 200. Moreover, Vengsarkar agreed with the current selection committee’s decision to exclude Shubman Gill from the T20I side.

“They are all excellent players, but I am with the selection committee when they judge players based on current form and fitness. The current form does play an important role in the context of selection. And if you ask whom I would have picked instead of Gill, my choice would have been Jaiswal. He has proven time and again what a class performer he is and has always given the team the kind of starts required these days," he concluded.

India squad for the ICC T20 World Cup 2026: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Rinku Singh.

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