‘He Should Be There And Then The World Cup’: Akash Chopra Wants Tilak Varma In Asia Cup Squad

Akash Chopra lauded young Tilak for his heroics in the recently concluded India vs West Indies series.

FORMER India cricketer Akash Chopra reckons that the youngster Tilak Varma should be the part of upcoming Asia Cup which will be played in Pakistan and Sri Lanka from August 30.

Chopra lauded young Tilak for his heroics in the recently concluded India and West Indies series. Varma scored an 18-ball 27 in India’s total of 165/9 in the final T20I against the West Indies in Lauderhill, Florida, on Sunday, August 13. Varma also picked up Windies batter Nicholas Pooran but Windies won the T20I series by 3-2

“Suryakumar Yadav came and Tilak Varma was alongside him. Tilak Varma’s story is that he hit 19 runs in the sixth over. When he plays, he plays extremely well. Tilak Varma got out to Roston Chase, who took a good diving catch.”

“Tilak Varma also bowled. He hit a six off the second ball he faced (on his T20I debut) and he dismissed Nicholas Pooran off the second ball he bowled. He is an off-spinner and bats left-handed. Tilak Varma is doing everything so that his name comes in the Asia Cup team. He should be there and then the World Cup, you never know.”

It was the West Indies first T20I series victory over India since 2017, while the loss broke India’s streak of 12 consecutive unbeaten bilateral series as the Asian side fell to their first series defeat in men’s T20Is in more than two years.
After this series team India will face Ireland for the three match T20I series which will start from August 18 and ace speedster Jasprit Bumrah will make a comeback in that series.

This will be the last series for India before Asia Cup. Here is the India squad against Ireland.

Team India squad for T20I series against Ireland: Jasprit Bumrah (C), Ruturaj Gaikwad (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Sanju Samson (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Prasidh Krishna, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Avesh Khan