“Dropping someone in form over someone who has not played the format” – Twitter reacts as Dinesh Karthik wants Suryakumar Yadav to play 1st Test vs Australia instead of Shubman Gill

After the Indian cricket team’s brilliant performance in the limited overs series vs New Zealand, the Men in Blue’s next big assignment is the upcoming Test series vs Australia starting this month.

Team India won both the ODI and the T20I series vs New Zealand in as well as beating Sri Lanka in the series previous to that.

But now, the next big challenge awaits for the Men in Blue in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, with the first match to be played from the 9th February in Nagpur.

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Meanwhile before the series, there is a big question mark over Team India’s Playing XI especially because middle-order batsman Shreyas Iyer has been ruled out of the 1st Test atleast due to injury.

Former India wicketkeeper batsman Dinesh Karthik believes that Suryakumar Yadav should play in that role ahead of Shubman Gill. Suryakumar has been brought into the team without much red ball cricket in the last 3 years.

However, Twitter believes that is a foolish decision to drop Shubman Gill, who is in terrific form in the recent series vs Sri Lanka and New Zealand, also scored a double hundred in an ODI match and a hundred in a T20I match, both against New Zealand.

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