India have dropped Take a look at and one-day worldwide captain Shubman Gill from their 15-man squad for the lads’s T20 World Cup.
The 26-year-old’s omission follows him scoring 291 in his 15 T20 matches in 2025, with India’s chief selector Ajit Agarkar saying the batter was “wanting runs in the intervening time”.
Gill missed the T20 worldwide in opposition to South Africa on Friday as India gained the match to assert a 3-1 collection victory.
Suryakumar Yadav scored 5 runs in that sport and, regardless of his tally of 218 runs in his 19 T20 outings this 12 months, he retained the captaincy.
“We’ve full religion in our captain to ship through the World Cup,” stated Agarkar.
Suryakumar stated: “I do know what to do. I’ve time to repair it. We will certainly see Surya the batter.”
India, who’re defending champions, will host the T20 World Cup with Sri Lanka from 7 February to eight March.
India are in the identical group as Namibia, Netherlands, Pakistan and USA.
