T20 World Cup Preview, India Squad, Schedule, Key Players, and History at the Event
Jointly co-hosted by the USA and the West Indies, the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 is set to commence from June 1 to 29, 2024.
India finds itself in Group A along with Pakistan, Ireland, Canada and the USA. Let’s preview team India before it embarks on this historic event again.
TEAM INDIA SQUAD:
Captain: Rohit Sharma
Squad: Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.
Reserves: Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan.
Group A T20 World Cup 2024 Schedule
June 5: India v Ireland, New York – 08:00 PM IST (09:30 AM Local)
June 9: India v Pakistan, New York – 08:00 PM IST (09:30 AM Local)
June 12: United States v India, New York – 08:00 PM IST (09:30 AM Local)
June 15: India v Canada, Florida – 08:00 PM IST (10:30 AM Local)
Key Players
Rohit Sharma: Last year, the veteran hitman took India to 50-over World Cup final. Captain Sharma has played all the eight editions of T20 World Cup so far and his squad has no dearth of experience having Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya alongside him, eyeing on the T20 World cup 2024 trophy.
Jasprit Bumrah: Arguably the best bowler in the current T20Is, capable of delivering in varied situations and conditions. Sidelined during the previous edition of the T20 World Cup in 2022 due to injury, Bumrah has returned showcasing his prowess with 20 wickets in 11 matches during the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023.
Virat Kohli: An Under-19 world Cup-winning captain Kohli is the IPL’s highest run-scorer and the only one with more than 8000 runs. The top order batsman as of January 2024 has made 80 centuries in international cricket — 29 in Test cricket, 50 in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and 1 century in Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is).
T20 World Cup History of India:
2007 – Winners
2009 – Super 8
2010- Super 8
2012 -Super 8
2014 -Runners-up
2016 -Semi-finals
2021-Super 12
2022 -Semi-finals
Seventeen years passed since India clinched the only T20 World Cup trophy. Will India mark a historic win after almost two decades?
Tabinda Mir is a writer from Kashmir. She is an English Honours graduate and her interests primarily dwell in poetry and sports writing. She likes to cover Cricket as an avid fan. Apart from sports, her other publications include articles, poems and a letter to summer in the book titled, “Under The Summer Skies”.
Also, her leisure time activities include reading novels, poetry, non literary works, philosophies and writing poetry, short stories, articles on diverse themes.
