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Former CSK player Subramaniam Badrinath praised Yashasvi Jaiswal over Shubman Gill and said he deserves more than Gill to be in a squad.

After the announcement of India’s Asia Cup squad 2025, most people are not happy and criticize the decision of the BCCI to not select the more deserving players in the squad.

After the announcement of India’s Asia Cup squad, the BCCI got a lot of criticism for the decision to include the star player, Shreyas Iyer in the team after his great performance in the biggest league, the Indian Premier League (IPL). However, this is not it, there are more like players like Iyer, who was not the only omission from the squad.

The star Indian opening batsman, Yashasvi Jaiswal, was also part of the omission from the India’s Asia Cup squad. He was the back-up opener ahead of Gill for the T20 World Cup last year. He played 23 T20Is in his career and made 723 runs with one century and five fifties at a strike rate of over 164. Jaiswal played 14 matches in the IPL 2025, where he scored 559 runs with six half centuries at a strike rate of 160. However, he was named in the reserve players for the Asia Cup.

Shubman Gill has been named as the vice-captain of the Indian team in one of the finest and biggest event, the Asia Cup and former Chennai Super Kings (CSK) player Subramaniam Badrinath termed it a welcome move, but he had a question.

“I see this mostly as a positive that they are backing a youngster and projecting him for the future. But what about Yashasvi Jaiswal? He has done even better than Shubman Gill. Also, why has Sai Sudharsan missed out after scoring 700 runs in IPL 2025 and performing better than Shubman Gill? Sanju Samson himself is now in doubt to start in the playing 11,” he said on his Youtube channel.

“So while backing Shubman Gill, you ask what wrong have Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sai Sudharsan done when their numbers are better than Gill’s. Is this selection based on recency bias? This has been happening in India cricket forever – pick the player doing the best at the moment even if the formats are different. It’s not a bad decision but one that’s 50-50.“he added.