Former India player Aakash Chopra has questioned the Indian team’s selection in the fourth T20I against England in Pune on Friday, January 31. He added that Team India should have included a second specialist seamer in their starting XI.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “From the team I had picked yesterday, there was only one change. I am still screaming, it’s said that we should never blow our own trumpet, but you should have played two fast bowlers. I had kept Mohammed Shami in my team.”

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“They kept Mohammed Shami out. Of course, you want to attack with spin, but I am clearly saying repeatedly that in white-ball cricket, there is no ground across the world where you can’t play two fast bowlers. Game plans aside, there is no pitch where you can say that one fast bowler is enough, and will get Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube or Nitish Dube to bowl as the second seamer. There is no pitch like that unless you make a rank turner. However, the pitch wasn’t like that. So the game plan is still slightly beyond my understanding. Harshit Rana came and corrected your wrong,” Chopra again shared.

However, Rana came in as a concussion substitute for Shivam Dube and registered figures of 3/33 in four overs to help India win the game against England as well.

“You missed a fast bowler and that’s why you brought Harshit Rana in. Harshit picked up three wickets and you got him to bowl four overs. It means you need another fast bowler but you are consistently not playing him. You didn’t play (Mohammed) Shami this time and played Arshdeep (Singh),” he concluded.