Former India all-rounder R Ashwin has questioned the Indian team management over repeatedly ignoring Maharashtra batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad from the limited-overs plans. Gaikwad last featured in the T20I series for India immediately after the T20 World Cup win, when he toured Zimbabwe with the second-string team. In 20 innings for India in the shortest format, the Chennai Super Kings captain has scored 633 runs at an average of almost 40 and a competitive 143.

53 strike rate. Talking about his former CSK skipper, Ashwin said, “We don’t need to talk about Ruturaj Gaikwad’s class. He’s got all the shots in the book.

The only thing is that there is no information about why he is not in the scene after his last T20 series. Story continues below this advertisement “When he played the last T20 the coach was different, the captain was different.

The point is that if there is no communication with such players, they will be left largely in the dark. I really hope he is being communicated with. He is batting brilliantly on the red ball also.

I hope they will consider him for the middle-order role,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel. ” Ashwin also gave his opinion on modern T20 openers and insisted that there is no room for anchor players like Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli. He said, “In modern T20 cricket, if you come with a strike rate of less than 145, you will not be selected as an opener.

I am very sad to say this. You like players like Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, all these players are setting it up for you.

You can win the T20 World Cup because of how Virat performed in the final against South Africa. But when you have such players on one side, you need to fight on the other side.

That’s why Rohit took it upon himself,” he said. Gaikwad was dropped from India A’s red-ball squad after a poor tour of Australia last year.

However, he has had a great start to the ongoing Ranji Trophy season with scores of 91, 55*, 116 and 36*. The handsome right-handed batsman was also named in the India A squad for the white-ball game against South Africa in Rajkot next week.