'This is just bad politics': Fans blast BCCI for not including Rohit Sharma in India's squads for Australia tour

DNA Web Team | Updated: Oct 27, 2020, 11:01 AM IST

Twitterati went into a meltdown after BCCI for not including Rohit Sharma in Team India's squads for Australia tour

Mumbai Indians (MI) skipper Rohit Sharma returned to the nets ahead of their clash against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on Monday after missing out on two back-to-back IPL 2020 matches due to a hamstring injury.

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The 'Hitman' had sustained the injury during MI's clash against the Kings XI Punjab on October 18, which they ended up losing after two breathtaking super overs at the Dubai International Stadium.

"Just what we love to see! Hitman in action at today’s training," MI took to social media and wrote which sharing some training pictures.

With his fitness still in doubt, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) decided to leave out Rohit Sharma from India's T20I, Test and ODI squads for their series against Australia.

Not only Rohit, but Ishant Sharma also was missing from the selected squad due to the same reason.

Sharma's exclusion left a huge outrage on social media as fans questioned BCCI's team selection.

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 T20I squad: Virat Kohli (Capt), Shikhar, Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul (vc & wk), Shreyas Iyer, Manish, Hardik Pandya, Sanju Samson (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Varun Chakravarthy 

ODI squad: Virat Kohli (Capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul (vc & wk), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur 

Test squad: Virat Kohli (Capt), Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar, Ajinkya(vc), Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Saha (wk), Rishabh Pant (wk), Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, R. Ashwin, Mohd. Siraj.