Cricket News Desk. Lok Sabha MP and cricket lover Shashi Tharoor has targeted the selection committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India over the teams selected for the Sri Lanka tour. Some surprising players were not included in the team selected by the board, which caught Tharoor's attention. Shashi Tharoor, who has always cursed the selectors regarding Sanju Samson, has supported another player this time. He has raised his voice against excluding Abhishek Sharma from ODIs and T20s.
Samson was named in the squad for the shortest format series against Sri Lanka, while Abhishek was dropped by both teams. Abhishek recently scored a brilliant century in the five-match T20 series against Zimbabwe. After this, it was believed that the responsibility of opening would now be on Yashasvi Jaiswal and Abhishek Sharma, as the position of opener in the T20 team was vacant due to Rohit Sharma's retirement. However, this did not happen.
Summarizing all these things, Tharoor wrote- The team selection for India's tour of Sri Lanka later this month is interesting. Sanju Samson, who scored a century in his last ODI, has not been selected for ODIs, while Abhishek Sharma, who scored a T20I century in the #INDvZIM series, has not been selected in any format. Rarely has the success of an Indian team mattered so little to the selectors! Anyway, best wishes to the team.
Suryakumar Yadav has been given the command of the Indian team in the T20 match against Sri Lanka, while Shubman Gill has been made the vice-captain for the three-match series. Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been included in the ODI team for this tour, and Rohit Sharma is also captaining the team. Gill is also the vice-captain in the ODI series.