Cricket India vs West Indies 1st T20I: Why is Deepak Hooda Not Playing Today?

Deepak Hooda Cricket India vs West Indies: In a massive breaking news update, India’s young swashbuckling batsman Deepak Hooda is not playing the opening T20I match against West Indies scheduled to be played at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad. The Men in Blue will surely be feeling very much high on confidence after having registered a brilliant 3-0 ODI series whitewash against West Indies recently. Both the teams will now be playing an exciting five-match T20I series.

Cricket India vs West Indies 1st T20I: Why is Deepak Hooda Not Playing Today?

India skipper Rohit Sharma mentioned at the toss that Deepak Hooda is not part of the side for this opening T20I encounter against West Indies. Hooda’s absence comes as a big surprise after his brilliant performances off late for the national team in the shortest format of the game. The swashbuckling right-hander notched up his maiden T20I century against Ireland and also did well in the first T20I against England.

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IND vs WI: Confirmed India Playing 11

With Deepak Hooda and Sanju Samson warming the bench, India have gone ahead with both Shreyas Iyer and Dinesh Karthik part of the playing 11 for this 1st T20I against West Indies.

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1. Rohit Sharma (C)
2. Rishabh Pant (wk)
3. Shreyas Iyer
4. Suryakumar Yadav
5. Hardik Pandya
6. Dinesh Karthik
7. Ravindra Jadeja
8. Ravichandran Ashwin
9. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
10. Ravi Bishnoi
11. Arshdeep Singh

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