5 Players who may miss out in India’s T20 World Cup 2021 squad

4. Deepak Chahar

Although Deepak Chahar has been a preferred front-line pacer for India in T20Is for a while now, in reality, the speedster might be left behind when it comes to picking him for a potential World T20 squad. Ever since Bhuvneshwar Kumar has become injury prone, Deepak Chahar has been the one who has filled his void at least with the new ball. Overall in his eventful T20I career, Deepak has played a total of 13 matches and has grabbed 18 wickets.

Now regardless of featuring in the current T20I squad, the seamer will face some fierce competition from other pacers to grab a T20 World Cup ticket. If someone like Bhuveshwar Kumar if fully fit and back to his accuracy will become the third frontline seamer along with Mohammad Shami and Jasprit Bumrah. These three stallions will also be facing stiff competition for T Natarajan who will eventually have an edge mainly because of his smart left-arm death bowling.

For the reserves, one might be firmly expecting Navdeep Saini mainly because of his express pace along with his ability to bowl toe-crushing yorkers. In accordance with them, someone like Shardul Thakur might get a preferential edge over Deepak Chahar predominantly because of batting skills.

With Bhuvneshwar Kumar now being available along with some front-line pacers being unavailable, it will be interesting to see whether the team management does opt to play both these pacers together or either of them. All in all, for Deepak Chahar ideally the goal of grabbing a ticket for the upcoming World T20 does look a strenuous affair to fetch.