Captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav and Yashasvi Jaiswal have all bowled in the past in their careers. But recently, he has stopped moving his hand. However, Jaiswal did bowl during the series in West Indies last year. Sharma and Kohli bowled during the ODI World Cup last year, especially in the last league match against the Netherlands. As one can imagine, this became a major event.
Rinku probably missed out just because he didn’t tick two boxes. Once the selectors made up their minds about Sharma and Kohli or were asked to do so, there was no option but to look for multi-skilled players. Dubey ticks the box from great distance. Recent trends suggest that Dubey has not bowled for Chennai Super Kings but has been asked to do so in the nets. Sharma also used Dubey as a bowling option against Afghanistan.
