India, Dec. 20 -- Dinesh Karthik was left baffled by the exclusion of Shubman Gill and Jitesh Sharma from India's T20 World Cup squad. Both players were part of India's squad in the recent T20I series. Taking to Instagram, Karthik claimed that he didn't understand why the selectors dropped the duo, considering they had been part of the team recently.

"India's World Cup T20 squad is announced, and guess what? Shubman Gill, the current vice-captain of the T20 team and incumbent opener, has been dropped not just from the eleven, but from the squad. And they wanted to bring in an extra opener, so they brought in Ishan Kishan and dropped Jitesh Sharma as well, and instead of Jitesh Sharma, it's going to be Rinku Singh," he said.

"That is hug...