On KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer’s Return, Ravi Shastri Warns Over Jasprit Bumrah-Like Situation | Cricket News

With precisely two weeks left for the beginning of the Asia Cup, former India head coach and ex-selectors Sandeep Patil and MSK Prasad chalked out their ultimate 15-man squad for the event. Heading into the event, India have a couple of areas to handle, particularly with the absence of KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, and Jasprit Bumrah from the scene. While Rahul and Iyer are nonetheless recovering from their respective accidents, Bumrah is all set to make his comeback throughout the T20I collection towards Ireland.

Prasad and Shastri had contrasting views on Rahul and Iyer’s health, with the latter suggesting that the star batters ought to play a couple of matches earlier than that includes in a big event.

“They have to play matches, give them some matches before the Asia Cup. They should be picked in the team na. Abhi to shuru ho jata hai Asia Cup (Asia Cup is about to start now). Where will they play?,” Shastri mentioned on Star Sports’ Selection Day present.

Prasad, then again, carefully watched Rahul on the National Cricket Academy (NCA), and was satisfied that the participant is match sufficient.

“I’ve seen KL Rahul playing in the NCA because I was there for the last one week… he might end up playing. They have already organised two matches for him,” Prasad added.

Patil als echoed Shastri’s sentiments, and highlighted the distinction between web follow and real-time match conditions

“Playing in the nets and playing in the matches is different, totally different.

While citing the example of Bumrah, Shastri suggested that a player should not be rushed into the team after a long term lay-off.

“Injuries occur. You need to watch out. You attempt to rush simply with Bumrah. Not as soon as, not twice, 3 times, I imply and he is been sitting out for 14 months now,” Shastri concluded.

Star Sports’ Experts 15-man Asia Cup Squad:

Ishan Kishan, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma (capt.), Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah.