Sunil Gavaskar on Yashasvi Jaiswal snubbed out of Asia Cup 2025 squad: ‘You can only pick XI in the match and you can only pick 15 in the squad’

Yashasvi Jaiswal was in the squad for last year’s T20 World, which India went on to win. However, since then, Jaiswal has not been part of the T20 bilaterals that India has played. Although Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma have performed well at the top, there was an expectation from a few former players that Yashasvi Jaiswal, who has done quite well for the Rajasthan Royals, would get his call, which did not happen.

When former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar was asked about the same, he said on India Today: “You can only pick XI in the match and you can only pick 15 in the squad. Somebody has to miss out, that’s just one of those in Indian cricket. No point in discussing whether A or B or C should’ve been there. This is now our team. We can all have our opinions before the selection committee picks the team but once the team is picked, we should back it fully. We shouldn’t be saying A should’ve been there or B should’ve been there. That only creates controversy, which the players don’t need.”

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