The Indian cricket team will play a five-match T20 International series against Zimbabwe from July 6. The selectors have selected a young team full of new faces for this series, which will be led by Shubman Gill. Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shivam Dubey, who were part of the World Cup team, have been ruled out of the first two matches of this series. Still, the selectors turned to young players instead of experienced players and included Sai Sudarshan, Jitesh Sharma and Harshit Rana in the team.

Many star players were ignored in this series, including players like Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul, who have played in all three formats for India.

ishan kishan

Ishan Kishan was a part of India's team in all three formats till the South Africa tour last year. After this, he asked for a break from the BCCI, since then he is out of the team. According to the news, Ishan was asked by the BCCI to play Ranji Trophy for Jharkhand, but he started preparing for IPL 2024 along with Hardik Pandya. After which the BCCI also terminated his central contract.

Rahul Dravid, who was the coach at that time, had made it clear that he would return to the team only after playing domestic cricket. Now the selectors have ignored him even for the Zimbabwe tour.

Shreyas Iyer

Shreyas Iyer, who led Kolkata Knight Riders to the IPL 2024 title, was also not given a chance by the selectors in this series. He had played against England earlier this year. Test Series In Indian Team He was a part of the team, but after a disappointing performance in the first two matches, he was dropped from the team. Then the BCCI also terminated his central contract

Iyer also played the Ranji Trophy final for Mumbai and played a brilliant innings in it. After this, he did not get a place in the team for the T20 World Cup as well. He last played for India in T20 International in December 2023.

KL Rahul

KL Rahul has not played a T20 International match for India for more than one and a half years. He last played for India in this format against England in the 2022 T20 World Cup. Let us tell you that Rahul is at number four in the list of players who have scored the most runs for India in T20 International and has two centuries to his name. Only Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav are ahead of him in that list.