Twitter Reactions: Indian selectors retain 15, drop Binny and Thakur for the series against New Zealand

The Indian selection panel chaired by Sandeep Patil in probably one of its last assignments sat together in Mumbai to pick the India squad for the 3-Test series against New Zealand at home starting later this month. They decided to go with a more conservative approach of holding onto the ones who played the recent series in West Indies. While the team traveled with 17-men for the Caribbean tour they have cut it down to 15 considering the fact that they will be playing at home now.

Two players axed from the team are pacer Shardul Thakur and all-rounder Stuart Binny. Thakur just played one warm-up game wherein he picked a wicket Binny also had a similar fate but things went worse for him when he conceded 30 runs in a single over in the first T20I against West Indies played in Florida.

While a lot of people expected the domestic heavyweights like Gautam Gambhir, Shreyas Iyer and even India A skipper Manish Pandey to be rewarded with a place in the team there wasn’t any delight for them. Amidst all that Shikhar Dhawan has held his place and so have Rohit Sharma and Umesh Yadav who had a mixed tour of the West Indies. It will be interesting to see if the team management opts for the five bowlers strategy while playing at home.

If they do, then there is a greater chance of all the three spinners in Ravi Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Amit Mishra playing along with Ishant Sharma and Mohammad Shami or Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

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Indian squad for the Test series against West Indies: Virat Kohli (C), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Mohammad Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, KL Rahul, Umesh Yadav, Murali Vijay

Here is how Twitterati reacted to the team that has been selected:

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— Madhav Sharma (@HashTagCricket) September 12, 2016

Playing 5 bowlers in XI against a team like West Indies itself and talking about not giving longer run to Rohit. ?? https://t.co/PvVs0fpExp

— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats) September 12, 2016

For those who thinks #Gambhir should be in and #SDhawan out….?? #RIP #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/gQuTPkzNzo

— Sushil Tiwary (@SushylTiwary) September 12, 2016

Test squad already has 4 specialist openers. Exclusion of Gambhir is the right decision. #DuleepTrophy #indvsnz #indvnz

— Rajesh Navada (@navadarajesh) September 12, 2016

My heart goes for Stuart Binny after seeing the selection of rohit sharma and shikhar dhawan
#INDvNZ

— vishu pruthi (@vishuhereforu) September 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/Virendarr_swag/status/775244757500989440

I wonder Rohit and Dhavan are in some reservation quota to find their place always in squad, pretty disappointed ! #indvnz

— Abbas Khambati (@Abbas67) September 12, 2016

#StuartBinny is no more the chosen 'Bunny' for the #INDvNZ tour @GautamGambhir you deserve more especially after the 96 in #DuleepTrophy

— Sahil Shetty (@shettysahil26) September 12, 2016

Sir Jadeja will be always there 😉 #INDvNZ

— Sannyasi (@imRT_) September 12, 2016

Atlast binny is dropped. …..now I feel a bit safer while choosing which team would win #IndvNz

— Akash Bajpai (@AkashBajpai7) September 12, 2016

#INDvNZ TEST
15 of 17 players are retained from WestIndies tour 😀 @imVkohli Good luck ?

— Dinesh Dravid (@Dineshdravidd) September 12, 2016

Predictable 15 for the #IndvNZ tests,but will India play all 3 spinners,will Ashwin bat at 6
Who would u hv in ur 11 pic.twitter.com/YFTdNaEehR

— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) September 12, 2016

Highest scorer in 2007 WC final
Highest scorer in 2011 WC final
If dhoni, sachin had bn kept included without form, Why not Gambhir? #INDvNZ

— Good Doctor (@iamthemaulik) September 12, 2016

Damm it binny #IndvNz pic.twitter.com/sgfLYJzSx3

— Akash Bajpai (@AkashBajpai7) September 12, 2016

#GautamGambhir #StuartBinny pic.twitter.com/1Dh7JecgIH

— Fukkard (@Fukkard) September 12, 2016

Why Binny is dropped on the basis of his T20 performance ? Is his Test's performance wasn't enough ?

— ️Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) September 12, 2016

Binny: *now I will concentrate only on my batting* pic.twitter.com/eIRnB4JX2p

— Scarface (@al_kameeno) September 12, 2016

Hearing Stuart Binny Drop Out from #INDvNZ series, Indian Team is like : pic.twitter.com/MENelM5hrU

— Sir Rohit Sharma (@imWrong45) September 12, 2016

This isn't the first time that fabulous performances are ignored by the BCCI. Same thing happened to Yuvi after scoring a hattrick of 100s

— Naseer?ᵀᵁᴮᴱᴸᴵᴳᴴᵀ (@BeingYuvNaseer) September 12, 2016

India pick a largely predictable team for the series against New Zealand. That they can do so is a measure of confidence.

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) September 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/i_amswaraj/status/775237341937999872