Irfan Pathan picks Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli as India's top-3 for T20 World Cup 2024.
In the T20 World Cup 2024, India is clubbed with Pakistan, Ireland, Canada, and the USA in Group A and will open its campaign against Ireland on June 5 in New York.
(Shouldn’t be any question regarding his place or strike rate.
His strike rate at the T20I is 138 + Better than Chris Gayle+ 51 avg.
In the ongoing season of the IPL, Kohli has scored 379 runs in eight matches played so far, and his strike rate is 150.40.
Irfan Pathan picks Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli as India's top-3 for T20 World Cup 2024. Picture Credit: X/@IrfanPathan and ANI
Former Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan took to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday (April 23) to pick India ’s top 3 for the T20 World Cup 2024 , which will be played in the USA and West Indies this year from June 1 to 29. According to Pathan, who won the Player of the Match award in the final of the 2007 T20 World Cup, India should open with Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal , and irrespective of the noise around his strike rate, Virat Kohli should bat at No. 3 for the world No. 1 T20I team in the 20-team megaevent.
In the T20 World Cup 2024, India is clubbed with Pakistan, Ireland, Canada, and the USA in Group A and will open its campaign against Ireland on June 5 in New York. The high-voltage match against Pakistan is scheduled to take place on June 9 in New York.
Ahead of India’s squad announcement for T20 World Cup 2024, Pathan explained in an X post the reason behind picking Rohit, Jaiswal, and Virat as India's top three batters and highlighted that Kohli’s strike rate is even better than Chris Gayle in T20Is.
“Now that World Cup is nearing. My top 3 for team India.
1) Rohit Sharma (in form as well as captain)
2) Yashasvi Jaiswal (been saying that he should be there even before his 100 purely cos he was performing well for team India before the ipl)
3) Virat Kohli. (Shouldn’t be any question regarding his place or strike rate. His strike rate at the T20I is 138 + Better than Chris Gayle+ 51 avg. N his ipl strike rate this season is 150.
Your thoughts ????,” Pathan tweeted.
Kohli, who is the only batter in the world to score more than 4000 runs in T20Is, has a strike rate of 138.15 in 117 T20Is, whereas Gayle finished his career with a strike rate of 137.50 in 79 matches.
In the ongoing season of the IPL, Kohli has scored 379 runs in eight matches played so far, and his strike rate is 150.40. The former Indian captain is leading the Orange Cap race despite his team’s poor form in the ongoing season.
