Former India player Aakash Chopra has said that both Ruturaj Gaikwad and Yashasvi Jaiswal wouldn’t be a part of India’s 2027 ODI World Cup squad. He added that a vacant spot won’t be available to accommodate either of them as well. Both Gaikwad and Jaiswal weren’t part of India’s squad in the recently concluded ODI series against England as well. While the Indian team have a settled top five in Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, and KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan was picked as the reserve wicketkeeper-batter as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel, ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “He does two jobs. He can open and bat in the middle order as well. Although he shouldn’t have batted there, he was made to do that, and he scored a fifty and a hundred there. Yashasvi, on the contrary, is just a backup for an opener. However, I feel they won’t take either of them.”

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“I feel they will take both Nitish Kumar Reddy and Hardik Pandya, and both Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel. So a spot won’t remain. Two keepers need to be taken. So KL Rahul plus Ishan Kishan or maybe Rishabh Pant, I don’t know. Neither Ruturaj Gaikwad nor Yashasvi Jaiswal has chances of going,” he shared again.

However, Aakash Chopra also added that Ruturaj Gaikwad might be preferred over Yashasvi Jaiswal if India want to take a specialist backup batter, considering he can bat in multiple positions as well.

“However, if they think they need to take a backup batter, then there is a fight between Ruturaj Gaikwad and Yashasvi Jaiswal. In that, you can go toward Rutu slightly if you wish because he provides a middle-order option that Yashasvi doesn’t. However, if you are picking Yashasvi and Rishabh Pant/Ishan Kishan, you will go toward specialists because it’s South Africa, and then you will drop Nitish Kumar Reddy,” Aakash Chopra concluded.