India, Dec. 20 -- Sanjay Manjrekar did not just react to the selection of India's T20 World Cup 2026 team; he framed it as a quiet admission of guilt.

In one sharp post, Manjrekar argues that the Shubman Gill omission isn't a "bold call" as much as it is damage control: selectors rectifying a mistake they made when they "got a bit carried away after the England tour." That England reference matters. Gill's 2025 Test series in England was a run-fest; he topped the charts with 754 runs, the kind of number that can hypnotise even the most form-purist decision maker.

But Manjrekar's point is brutally simple: Test excellence does not automatically translate into T20 certainty, especially in a World Cup year where roles, not reputations, win ...