Shikhar Dhawan was dropped from Team India by Rahul Dravid, BCCI official revealed the secret: Report

New Delhi. Team India has to play a 5-match T20 series from South Africa at home next month. The series will run from June 9 to 19. However, senior players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been rested from the series. KL Rahul has been made the captain and Rishabh Pant as the vice-captain. After performing well in the IPL, it was expected that senior batsman Shikhar Dhawan will also get a place in the team, but he is out of the team. While his performance was better than Ishan Kishan to Pant. He was also not selected for the T20 World Cup held last year.

According to the news of Inside Sports, Shikhar Dhawan did not find a place in the team due to coach Rahul Dravid. A BCCI official said, Shikhar has been involved in Indian cricket for more than a decade. But in T20, you have to give chances to the youngsters who perform well. Rahul Dravid had to take a tough decision and we all agreed. Dhawan was informed by Dravid about this before the team was announced. Dhawan had scored the highest 460 runs for Punjab Kings in the current season of T20 league.

Less than 5 months to the World Cup

T20 World Cup matches are to be held in Australia in October-November. That is, less than 5 months are left for the start of this ICC tournament. Young fast bowlers Arshdeep Singh and Umran Malik have got a chance for the first time in the team selected for the T20 league. Apart from this, Kuldeep Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik have returned. Pandya was running out of the team since last year's T20 World Cup. But he has done exceptionally well in the current season.

Left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav's performance was also impressive. Umran Malik surprised everyone with his fast bowling. The first match of the T20 series is to be held in Delhi. In such a situation, this series is important for those youngsters who want to make a place in the team for a long time.

Indian T20 team

KL Rahul (Captain), Shreyas Iyer, Rituraj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Venkatesh Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Umran Malik, Kuldeep Yadav, Akshar Patel and Ravi Bishnoi.