India, Jan. 10 -- Shubman Gill, India's Test and ODI captain, finally issued his first reaction to being dropped from the team's T20 World Cup squad on Saturday. The 26-year-old, who made an entry into the T20I playing XI as the vice-captain for the Asia Cup 2025, found himself out of the reckoning after a below-par showing with the bat in the 15 T20Is he featured in, failing to hit a single fifty. No one expected the selection committee, headed by Ajit Agarkar, to leave out Gill, but this is exactly what happened.

In the 15 T20Is he played in 2025, Gill scored 219 runs at an average of 24.25 and a strike rate of 137.26. His inclusion in the T20I scheme of things resulted in Sanju Samson going out of the lineup, despite hitting three cen...