No Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli is the ideal recipe for India's success at T20 World Cup
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No Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli is the ideal recipe for India's success at T20 World Cup

Hindustan Times  

And then, just like that, six became five. India's skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have not played a T20I game since November 2022 India’s jumbo squad arrived in South Africa last week, one lot set to enter the final preparatory phase for the T20 World Cup next June, with six international outings to work out their combinations. Now, the management group has matches on Tuesday and Thursday against the Proteas, and three further games at home against Afghanistan in mid-January, as their only outings ahead of the North American World Cup adventure. It might appear one of those great paradoxes that a country which boasts the most visible and effervescent 20-over franchise league in the world hasn’t won a T20 World Cup since the inception of the IPL. For ten months since the end of the last T20 World Cup in Australia in November, India’s focus had turned to the 50-over game, inevitable given the home World Cup that held out so much promise but ended in bitter heartbreak last month.

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