India T20 WC Exit: Virender Sehwag on India: ICC T20 World Cup 2022 – Former India cricketer Virender Sehwag has lashed out Rohit Sharma & Co for their thrashing in the semi-final against England. While Sehwag did not take any one name in particular, he made one thing clear “I don’t want to see certain faces in the next T20 World Cup. “The former India captain feels youngsters should be given a chance instead in the next edition of the T20 World Cup in 2024. Follow ICC T20 World Cup 2022 Live Updates with InsideSport.IN.
“If you start thinking about your future now, then only you’ll be able to put together a team in two years’ time. I would not want to see some non-performing seniors in the next World Cup. I hope the selectors will make such calls. But the problem is will these selectors remain till the next World Cup? There will be a selection panel, new management, new approach so will they make the changes? But one thing is for sure if they go into the next World Cup with the same team and the same approach then the results will also be the same,” Sehwag said on Cricbuzz.
India T20 WC Exit: Virender Sehwag lashes out on Team India for the thrashing in semifinals, says “I don’t want to see certain faces in next T20 World Cup”
India T20 WC Exit: Why Sehwag does not want to see certain faces in the next T20 World Cup?
- Sehwag feels India lack power hitters and a fresh mindset in crunch situations.
- The former India captain opines that India should inject new faces in the T20 World Cup 2024, just MS Dhoni-led side did in 2007.
- For the unreserved, Ganguly Sachin Tendulkar, and Rahul Dravid opted out of T20 WC 2007 as they felt the format needed more young players.
- India went with quite a few new faces, which included the likes of RP Singh, Robin Uthappa, Dinesh Karthik, Rohit Sharma, & Yusuf Pathan.
- Led by Dhoni, India played a positive and aggressive brand of cricket to win the showpiece event.
- Sehwag believes in T20 WC players who are 30-plus like Rohit Sharma, Ashwin and Shami should not plat the T20 WC 2024.
“I won’t talk about mindset and all, but I would definitely want to see changes in personnel. I don’t want to see certain faces in the next World Cup. It happened in the 2007 T20 World Cup also. The stalwarts playing for all these years did not go to that World Cup. A bunch of youngsters went, and nobody had any expectations from them, and I would want to see a similar sort of team picked for the next T20 World Cup, nobody will expect them to win, but that team will be for the future,” Sehwag said.
India T20 WC Exit: Virender Sehwag lashes out on Team India for the thrashing in semifinals, says “I don’t want to see certain faces in next T20 World Cup”
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