India will miss Rohit Sharma's T20 World Cup 2024 winning strategy in Asia Cup 2025: Ex-Indian cricketer

Former Indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif has revealed that the Indian team, led by Suryakumar Yadav, will miss Rohit Sharma’s T20 World Cup 2024 strategy at the upcoming Asia Cup 2025 campaign.

It’s worth noting that India will play its first game of the Asia Cup 2025 competition against the hosts UAE, on Wednesday, September 10. Kaif took to his X handle to reveal an interesting aspect of the current Indian team.

Kaif felt that while the Rohit Sharma-led team had three all-rounders in Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, and Hardik Pandya in the successful T20 World Cup 2024 campaign, the current side has only Hardik and Axar as two all-rounders in the XI, adding that someone like Washington Sundar would be dearly missed in the eight-team showpiece event.

“Rohit's team won the T20 World Cup with 3 all-rounders - Axar, Jadeja, Hardik - and that meant 6 proper bowling options and batting till 8. At the Asia Cup, with only 2 genuine all-rounders - Hardik and Axar, India will have to find a new winning combination. Washington Sundar will be missed,” Kaif wrote on his X account.

https://x.com/MohammadKaif/status/1964965820099973442 

The Indian chief selector Ajit Agarkar, after announcing the Asia Cup squad, had asserted that since there are already three spinners part of the squad, they had to bring in an extra batter, Rinku Singh, with Washington Sundar included in the reserves.

"He's (Sundar) always been in the scheme of things. At the moment, we have two mystery spinners/wristspinners in Varun and Kuldeep, and Axar has been around for a while. When we need four spinners - he may always be in the mix. For now, we felt we needed an extra batter in Rinku. And you could only pick 15. If there were 16, maybe he could've been in," Agarkar had said in the press conference after announcing the squad.

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