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Wasim Jaffer Finds Weird Way of India’s Playing XI For The Pakistan Game
By CricShots - Oct 24, 2021 4:25 pm
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Former Indian opener, Wasim Jaffer is known to have one of the best Twitter accounts and he has often been seen entertaining his fans with his funny and cryptic tweets before big matches. On October 24, 2021, India and Pakistan will be locking horns with each other in the T20 World Cup 2021. On the eve of the game, Jaffer has named his pick for the Indian XI, but in his own style.

KL Rahul
KL Rahul played brilliantly in the knockouts

Wasim Jaffer posted a graphic in which he had used the logos of the IPL franchise of the respective players to indicate who will make it to the final XI. The image had four logos of Mumbai Indians, which indicated that there will be four players from that team. Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah are the couple of players who will walk into this XI for a fact.

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However, only two among Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, and Hardik Pandya will play this match. Looking at the way in which the image was structured, also gave an idea of the batting positions. It can be speculated that Pandya and Suryakumar were the two players whom Jaffer wanted.

There is one logo of Royal Challengers Bangalore, which indicates the captain, Virat Kohli. KL Rahul, the skipper of Punjab Kings will open with Rohit which was already announced by Kohli. But, there were two PBKS logos, which only point to Mohammed Shami. There were two logos of Chennai Super Kings as well. Ravindra Jadeja is one of them while Shardul Thakur seems to be the other one.

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Delhi Capitals’ logo pointed to Rishabh Pant. There was one logo of Kolkata Knight Riders as well, which indicates Varun Chakravarthy, the mystery spinner. He hasn’t done well in the warm-ups but h’s mystery factor can bring him into the XI. Apart from his cryptic predicted XI, Jaffer also posted a few memes on the India-Pakistan game, which are quite hilarious and worthy to go through.

Wasim Jaffer’s predicted XI decoded: Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Varun Chakravarthy, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah

Here are some of the memes shared by Wasim Jaffer ahead of the much-awaited clash: