India, Dec. 20 -- In what comes as an absolute shocker, Shubman Gill was sacked as vice-captain of India's T20 side and found no place in the 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup starting February 7. Gill made his return to India's T20I squad, elevated to the vice-captain role, but following a poor string of scores, the BCCI selection committee dropped him from India's T20I set-up.

As a result, Gill will miss his second straight T20 World Cup.

"Obviously, Shubman was the vice-captain. He is not in the team, so there will have to be somebody else as vice-captain. And Axar, before that, when Shubman was actually not playing the T20s and playing Test cricket, when a lot of the T20s used to clash, Axar was the vice-captain. So, that's abou...