Did Rohit, Hardik, Virat Deserve T20 WC Selection? These Numbers Answer

In just over a month's time, India will hope to win the 2024 T20 World Cup and bring an end to their more than decade-long ICC trophy drought. They won the inaugural edition of the T20 World Cup in 2007 but surprisingly have never won another since. On April 30, the Ajit Agarkar-led selection panel named India's 15-member squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024 which is scheduled to be played in the USA and the West Indies in June.

Squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Hardik Pandya (Vice Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.

Reserves – Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed and Avesh Khan

Eight players from India's T20 WC 2022 squad have again made the cut in this year's selections. They are Rohit, Kohli, Suryakumar, Pant, Pandya, Axar, Chahal, and Arshdeep.

Bumrah was originally named in the squad for 2022 but was replaced by Mohammed Shami.

Will this year's India squad go further than the Men in Blue's semi-final finish in 2022? Let's have a look at all the players' form in the 20-over format in the last year.

Rohit Sharma (c)
Indian skipper Rohit Sharma will lead India in the T20 WC 2024. The right-handed batter didn't play any T20I match in 2023 but was named captain for the T20I series against Afghanistan in early 2024.

After scoring consecutive ducks in the series, Rohit smashed an unbeaten 121 in the final T20I in Bangalore. He carried his supreme touch into IPL 2024 and scored 315 runs in 10 matches at a strike rate of 158.29.

Hardik Pandya (vc)
All-rounder Hardik Pandya has been in and out of India's squad over the last one year due to