MUMBAI: Veteran Test players Cheteshwar Pujara and Umesh Yadav have paid the price for calls for transition in India’s Test team following India’s 209-run defeat in the final of the World Test Championship at the Oval against Australia earlier this month.
On Friday, the national selectors, while picking India’s Test and ODI squads for the upcoming West Indies tour — the team for the five T20Is will be named later — dropped both the 35-year-olds from the side for the two-Test series in the Caribbean, which will be India’s first in the 2023-25 WTC cycle.