About 2 years ago, India won 2023 Asia. Sri Lanka’s allout for just 50 runs was a shocking moment for the world. Team India finished that match in just 37 balls. Mohammad Siraj was the biggest hero of India’s victory, who bowled 7 overs and took just 21 runs and took 6 wickets. He was chosen as ‘Player of the Match’ for this performance, but Siraj is not playing the 2025 Asia Cup. Know what is the real reason for this?

Why is Mohammad Siraj not playing?

A report was revealed in a report before the Indian squad was announced for the Asia Cup 2025. It claimed that 2 main fast bowlers in Team India may be Jaspreet Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh. Now after the squad announcement, the situation is that Bumrah and Arshdeep will be the 2 main fast bowlers. It is possible that the third fast bowler may play all -rounder Hardik Pandya. Hardly Team India landed on UAE’s pitches with 4 fast bowling options. In such a situation, it would be difficult for Mohammad Siraj to fit into the playing XI.

Anyway, Mohammad Siraj was the highest overs bowler in the Test series against England. He bowled 185.3 overs on England Tour. Since the Asia Cup is coming soon after 2025, the Test series against the West Indies and then the ODI series against Australia. Due to these series, it is possible that Siraj has been rested from the Asia Cup.

Indian Squad of Asia Cup: Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Shubman Gill (Vice -captain), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Akshar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Jaspreet Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh

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Mohammad Siraj, took a total of 9 wickets in the Oval Test and became the hero of India’s historic victory. He was also awarded the Player of the Match Award for this great performance. DSP Siraj is being praised all over the world including India, who was the highest wicket -taking bowler in the series. Now India’s legendary cricketer Ravi Shastri has predicted and said that Mohammad Siraj will be promoted as soon as he returns to Hyderabad.

DSP Siraj will be promoted

Veteran player Ravi Shastri said while commenting during the match, “Now Mohammad Siraj will no longer be DSP, as soon as he returns to Hyderabad, he will be promoted a big promotion.” As soon as Siraj bowled Gas Etkinson on the fifth day, the Indian camp jumped with joy, while Ravi Shastri’s enthusiasm in the commentary box also did not have any place.

Remind you that after India’s historic victory in India’s T20 World Cup final last year, the Telangana government awarded Siraj to the post of DSP in the police. After that the cricket world has also recognized him as DSP.

Mohammad Siraj, who performed the match winning performance by taking 9 wickets in the Oval Test, had told in a post match conference that he had changed the wallpaper of the phone, in which the letters of English were written in the letters of English, which has meaning in Hindi himself. Siraj was the only Indian fast bowler in the Indo-England series to play all five Test matches. In this, he took a total of 23 wickets.

Siraj also became the highest overs bowler in this series. He bowled a total of 185.3 overs in 9 innings of five matches. This means he threw more than 20 overs on an average in each innings.

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