India, Aug. 12 -- The next edition of the T20 World Cup is six months away and starting with the Asia Cup in September, champions India will have 5 more T20Is each against Australia and South Africa to identify their squad of fifteen and 5 further T20Is against New Zealand to trial before the main event.

By leaving on a high after the 2024 World Cup win, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli cleared all decks for the selectors to build a more dynamic squad for India's title defence. A combination which would empower the team management to pick a playing 11 that confines to the new tenets of T20 cricket; where the openers hit the ground running in the Powerplay, leave the middle order to push the envelope further and specialist finishers take the ...