After Rohit Sharma's retirement from the T20 format, a new era of the Indian cricket team is going to begin. Fans will see a new Team India on the field in the T20 series to be played on the Sri Lanka tour. The command of this team will be in the hands of Suryakumar Yadav, while Shubman Gill has been made the vice-captain of the team. Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal have been selected as the openers in this team. But the BCCI selectors have not made an opener a part of this team whose record is much better than Gill.

This star opener was cut from Team India

It has become clear from the team's squad that the opening pair of Team India in the T20 series against Sri Lanka will be Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal. But Shubman Gill's performance has not been anything special in the T20 format so far. On the other hand, Rituraj Gaikwad has not got a place in this team, whose statistics in T20 are much better than Gill. In such a situation, the big question is arising that why Shubman Gill has been given preference over Rituraj Gaikwad. Actually, there is a huge difference in the T20 statistics of these two players.

Who dominates whom in T20 format?

Rituraj Gaikwad has played 23 matches for Team India so far. At the same time, Gill has played a total of 19 T20 matches for the Indian team. During this, Gaikwad has scored 633 runs in 20 innings at an average of 39.56 and his strike rate has been 143.53. But Gill has scored only 505 runs in 20 innings at an average of 29.70 and his strike rate has also been 139.50. Both the players have scored 1 century each in T20 for Team India. However, Gill has been able to score only 3 half-centuries and Gaikwad has 4 half-centuries to his name. In such a situation, the figures show that Gaikwad should get a chance in the team before Gill, but this time it has not happened.

Left his mark on Zimbabwe tour

Rituraj Gaikwad scored 133 runs in three innings of 4 matches at an average of 66.50 on the Zimbabwe tour. During this, he also scored a half-century while scoring runs at a strike rate of 158.33. But Gill scored more runs than Gaikwad in this series. He scored 170 runs in 5 matches, including 2 half-centuries. But his strike rate was only 125.92.

Indian T20 team for Sri Lanka tour

Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Riyan Parag, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Khalil Ahmed and Mohammad Siraj.