“The selection process should be made live” - Manoj Tiwary wants India selection process to be transparent

Former Indian batter and analyst Manoj Tiwary has expressed his frustration at not seeing Shreyas Iyer and Yashasvi Jaiswal in the Asia Cup 2025 squad, which will be led by Suryakumar Yadav.

Speaking to ANI in an exclusive interview, Tiwary slammed the head coach Gautam Gambhir, who had earlier told of Jaiswal walking into the Indian T20I team at any given point in time. However, his exclusion didn’t go well with Tiwary.

Moreover, Tiwary also talked about Shreyas Iyer, who had two exceptional IPL seasons for the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Punjab Kings. While he led KKR to the IPL 2024 title win, he propelled PBKS to the grand finale in IPL 2025, adding that the selection process should be made transparent from hereon.

“Two deserving candidates have been left out of the team. One is Shreyas Iyer and the other is Yashasvi Jaiswal. If you see old videos of the current head coach Gautam Gambhir, he had said that Yashasvi Jaiswal is such a player who at any given moment can walk into India’s T20 team. And you cannot think of keeping him out of T20s. Now that he himself is the coach, there is no place for Yashasvi,” Manoj Tiwary said to ANI.

“Also, if you see Shreyas Iyer’s performance in last year’s IPL and the domestic circuit. He has been one of the best in the format. The way he averaged in 50s while making runs, guided Punjab Kings to the IPL final and before that, captained KKR to the title, it’s an eye-opener that he didn’t get a place in the T20 side. This is why I have been saying for years now that the selection process should be made live so that sports lovers know who has been selected and why,” he added.

India’s squad for Asia Cup: Surya Kumar Yadav (C), Shubman Gill (VC), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (WK), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh.

Standby players: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Prasidh Krishna, Washington Sundar, Riyan Parag and Dhruv Jurel.

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