By Admin 
A new era of the Indian T20 team began after the historic victory in the 2024 T20 World Cup final. When Gautam Gambhir became the head coach, he handed over the captaincy to Suryakumar Yadav and gave the youth a chance. In the last about a year, this young team has not lost any T20 series. But now the Asia Cup India Squad Announcement of the Asia Cup 2025 is speculated to have some high-profile names, one of which is also Shubman Gill. Since the T20 team combination has been very good in the last one year, fitting Shubman Gill in the playing XI can become a complex problem for selectors and team management.
Top-5 before
If we look at the last one year performance of the T20 team, the top-5 players are almost sure. Abhishek Sharma has performed brilliantly as an opener, who has scored 535 runs in 17 matches from debut against Zimbabwe last year. His strike rate is 193 and also 2 centuries have been scored from his bat. At the same time, Sanju Samson has worked with Abhishek to give the Indian team a stormy start after getting full support from the captain and coach. If the T20 series against England is left, Samson was broken before Bangladesh and South Africa.
Although the number 3 was with Suryakumar Yadav, but Tilak Verma has shown it very well on this sequence. Tilak’s number-3 average is 55.38. At the same time, captain Surya is the world’s sixth batsman in the T20 rankings. At the same time, Hardik Pandya will be on the fifth order, whose experience and contribution to bowling has proved to be very important. Overall, Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya are almost confirmed in the top-5.
Bowling line-up also almost confirmed
According to the reports, Jaspreet Bumrah’s return to the T20 team seems to be fixed. At the same time, Arshdeep Singh is the highest wicket -taking bowler for India in T20 and has remained one of the main bowlers of the T20 team. The third pacer can be Mohammad Siraj. At the same time, after returning to Team India in 2024, Varun Chakraborty has taken 31 wickets in 12 matches, so he is entitled to the place in the playing XI. Akshar Patel is the vice -captain of the T20 team and can play the role of a spin all -rounder.
How Shubman Gill will fit in playing XI
There are already players who have done well in the team. Since Shubman Gill batting in the top-order, but tampering with the combination of Top-5 at the moment can be overwhelming to Team India, because the five players of the upper order have been doing well continuously. Here the slot can be empty, it is Rinku Singh, who has been batting at number 5, 6 and 7 to play the role of finisher.
Now the question is that even if Rinku is excluded, Gill is not accustomed to batting in the middle order. At the same time, Shreyas Iyer also comes to the squad, so how will he be brought to the playing XI. At present, all the equations indicate that Gill should either bat in the middle order, or due to them, the strong combination of the top-5 should be tampered with.
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