Shubman Gill and Avesh Khan set to be released from India’s T20 World Cup squad

Reserve opener Shubman Gill and pacer Avesh Khan are both set to be released from the Indian squad after the team’s final T20 World Cup group league match against Canada on Saturday, June 15.

Going into the Super 8 stage, the team management is pretty certain that they will only require the services of 2 standbys namely Rinku Singh and Khaleel Ahmed.

The logic to release both of the reserves is pretty simple. In the case of Shubman, if there are any injury concerns for either skipper Rohit Sharma or Virat Kohli, the team has Yashasvi Jaiswal in the squad of 15, who can then come in. There is no requirement of a fourth opener for the Super 8.

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In the case of Avesh, the team is already playing three front-line pacers along with Hardik Pandya, and there is a fifth medium pacer in Dube in case of absolute emergency.

Also, once the team reaches the Caribbean shores, there will hardly be any practice between Super 8 games as the team will be travelling to the next island only a day before the game. If there are no net-sessions, the need to have a net-bowler is not necessary.