Indian team for ICC World Cup 2019 selected

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced India's team which will be playing for the upcoming ICC World Cup 2019. The world cup will be held in England and Wales.

KL Rahul, Vijay Shankar, and Dinesh Karthik have been selected in the team while Rishabh Pant was not selected in the team with BCCI saying that in a game wicket keeping is very important and that is the reason why they chose Dinesh over Pant.

Even the no 4 batting spot had a lot of discussions which finally led to the selection of KL Rahul over Rayudu.

Indian team for World Cup 2019 - Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma (vc), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Vijay Shankar, MS Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami.