Former opener of Team India, Aakash Chopra, has questioned the Indian selectors for completely ignoring Umran Malik across all formats.
Former opener of team India, Aakash Chopra, has questioned the Indian selectors for completely ignoring Umran Malik across all formats, including the India A squad, for the upcoming multi-format tour of South Africa.
The India cricket team will face the Proteas in three T20Is, as many ODIs, and two Tests, with the first T20I to be played in Durban on Sunday, December 10. The India A team will play three four-day games, with the first match starting on Monday, December 11.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Chopra was asked whether Umran deserved a spot in India's T20 World Cup squad, to which he responded, "I feel he should be considered. You had kept him on the team until some time ago. You had played him; it was either against the West Indies or Ireland. Since then, he has been missing. You keep someone with so much love at one point and then suddenly disappear; that's not good."
The former India opener added, "Keep him in the scheme of things at least. In fact, he is not even being picked for the India A team. How can it happen that he was in the Indian team three months ago and now he is not even part of the India A team?"