The BCCI declared a 20-man Indian squad for the Sri Lankan tour last night on Twitter. There were several new faces in the squad, but Sheldon Jackson did not gain a place in the squad.
In case you didn’t know, Sheldon Jackson has been a part of the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Royal Challengers Bangalore teams in the Indian Premier League. He has not received many opportunities to showcase his talent in the league, but he has done exceptionally well in the domestic arena.
First, Sheldon used to play for the Saurashtra cricket team, but now he is a member of the Pondicherry team. In the 2020/21 Vijay Hazare Trophy, Jackson scored a brilliant century against Himachal Pradesh. He also played a knock of 55 runs versus Rajasthan.
Overall, Jackson has amassed more than 8,000 runs in domestic cricket. Still, the BCCI did not consider him for selection while picking the squad for the Sri Lanka tour. Sheldon Jackson posted an emoji on Twitter after the squad announcement. It was a heartbreaking emoji.
The tweet was going viral on social media. Soon after, Sheldon deleted it. Here is the screenshot of that tweet.
Sheldon Jackson misses out, but Padikkal and Gaikwad receive maiden call-ups
As mentioned ahead, there are quite a few new faces in the Indian squad for the Sri Lankan tour. Here is the complete Indian squad:
Shikhar Dhawan (c), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (vc), Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana, Ishan Kishan (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar, Krishnappa Gowtham, Chetan Sakariya.
Net Bowlers: Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh, Sai Kishore, Simarjeet Singh
It will be exciting to see how the Indian cricket team performs when they take the field against Sri Lanka in July.
