With the ODI World Cup 2023 quick approaching, the Indian cricket staff is in its remaining mode of preparation. The staff just lately ended the ODI sequence towards West Indies as winners, regardless of common captain Rohit Sharma and ex-India skipper Virat Kohli not that includes within the fional two video games. It appeared just like the Indian staff administration was making ready for a contingency plan. Now Rohit Sharma has stated that no person is assured of a spot within the World Cup squad.

“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 will happen from August 30 with India dealing with Pakistan on Sepetmeber 2. He additionally opened up on India’s harm considerations. “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,” he 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 quite a lot of names there. We will see what is correct mixture for us to go within the World Cup however earlier than we now have the Asia Cup,” the India skipper said.

Rohit said he wants some of the Indian players to bat under pressure to get accustomed in the longer run.

“We will see, we wish to win however on the identical time there are quite a lot of questions that we’d like solutions of. But within the Asia Cup, I wish to see a number of the guys batting beneath strain towards high quality groups,” he said.

“I nonetheless wish to see these issues, so we’ll wait and see what occurs, however it’s all the time good to have quite a lot of names, reasonably than only one or two names. I hope they’re slot in time – firstly that’s an important.

“They (Rahul and Iyer) have been at the NCA for the last four months, working really hard and it looks quite positive so we will keep our fingers crossed,” Rohit added.

With PTI inputs