With each KL Rahul – India’s most popular choice for No. 5 as wicketkeeper-batter – and Shreyas Iyer on comeback path, Rohit Sharma has stated they’ll wait and watch how these two gamers go. “No one is an automatic (selection), even I am not. We have this thing where nobody is guaranteed a spot. We cannot say that ‘you are there after all’ or things like that,” Rohit stated.

“Yes, some players know that they are going to play but at this point in time, playing three ODIs in the West Indies was a good opportunity to look at a few guys. In the Asia Cup, again, we will face good opposition,” he stated.

The Asia Cup is scheduled to be held simply earlier than the World Cup.

“Shreyas and KL are coming off not playing anything for four months, big injuries, surgeries rather. Both had surgeries. I know, I had to undergo surgery once and how it feels afterwards, it is quite tough. We have to see, how they respond, what they do,” Rohit Sharma stated.

“The selection (meeting) will be there in a few days, we will have a good debate about what we can do. But honestly nobody is an automatic choice – they all have to fight for the spot – everyone has to, whether it is a top spot or a bottom spot.

“We have gotten plenty of names there. We will see what is true mixture for us to go within the World Cup however earlier than we have now the Asia Cup,” the India skipper said.