Indian squad for Asia cup and ICC World T20 announced

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The Indian squad for Asia Cup and ICC World T20 2016 was announced earlier this day. The squad will be the same for both Asia Cup and ICC World T20. Only two new names have been added to the squad that toured Australia.

"We always give importance to domestic performances. Horses for courses has worked well, looking at the IPL and other domestic T20 tournaments," said Patil to the media in Delhi. Patil mentioned that the recent performances in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy were given importance.

Leggie Amit Mishra and Manish Pandey were some of the players who missed out on a spot

"Manish has done exceptionally well for us recently and he's the future. His name was certainly discussed," said Patil.

"We have full respect for what Amit Mishra has done but emotions can't dictate selections," he added, "We discussed him and many other names. The selectors and the captain felt this was the best combination we could have gone with."

India’s Squad For 2016 World T20: 

Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (c), Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Hradik Pandya, Ashish Nehra, Jasprit Bumrah, Hrabhajan Singh, Mohammed Shami, Pawan Negi