Rahul picked despite niggle; Iyer, Bumrah, Tilak in Asia Cup squad as selectors try to find nucleus for World Cup
NEW DELHI: Perhaps, for the first time in his tenure as Team India captain, Rohit Sharma has got all his first-choice players in the team as the selectors on Monday picked KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna in the 17-member team for the Asia Cup.
Besides these four players who are returning from long injury-layoffs, young left-hander Tilak Varma has also been included in the squad which is seen as the core for the World Cup to be played in October-November. Chief selector Ajit Agarkar made it clear that the World Cup team will be picked from this lot.