Asia Cup 2023: Why Shreyas Iyer not playing India vs Pakistan match, netizens react
KL Rahul comes in for him. Meanwhile, netizens reacted in their own unique way after squad of Team India was announced.
One user wrote on social media X(Formerly Twitter) Behind the scenes of KL Rahul's selection. Another user wrote, "Shreyas Iyer hearing the news of his back spasm.
Another User wrote,#ShreyasIyer to the team management for back spasm injury before the match." Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and opted to bowl first against India in their Asia Cup Super 4 match here on Sunday. Pakistan are playing an unchanged side while India made two changes to the playing XI.
In a forced change, batter KL Rahul returned to the Indian team after a long injury layoff in place of Shreyas Iyer, who is down with back spasm, while Jasprit Bumrah is back to lead the pace attack. He replaced Mohammed Shami.
Teams: India: Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj. Pakistan: Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (capt), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Agha Salman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf.
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