Dubai, April 7: The International Cricket Council (ICC) Monday announced the men’s Team of the Tournament for the world Twenty20 in Bangladesh, with India’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni as its captain.
The team includes four players from India, 2 every from South Africa and the West Indies, and one every from Australia, Netherlands and Sri Lanka.
Chosen by a choose group of experts, the team was geared toward being fitted to Bangladeshi conditions, on the idea of performances at the just-concluded World T20 tournament. Statistics were used however weren’t the only basis for choices.
Selection panel chairman and member of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees, David Boon, said: “It was a awfully difficult task for the panel to select a team of eleven from the exciting players who featured in this tournament.
“As the choice criteria for the Team of the Tournament are the performances of players within the conditions during the ICC World Twenty20 2014, a number of the best players in world cricket had to be overlooked of the team.
“Bowlers above all performed powerfully throughout this tournament, and the aspect we’ve got elite includes 3 of the foremost spectacular bowlers in valley Steyn, prophet Badree and Lasith Malinga.
“The team conjointly contains six specialist batsmen, including Stephan Myburgh from Netherlands as an opening batsman, likewise as 3 all-rounders, including Dhoni as a cricketer batsman.”
The panel visaged a difficult alternative for variety of positions, and players who were thought of however who didn’t ultimately build the team enclosed India’s Amit Mishra, Pakistan’s Ahmed Shehzad, South Africa couple of AB DE Villiers and Imran Tahir, Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews and Rangana Herath, and West Indies’ Dwayne Bravo and Sunil Narine.
Other members of the panel enclosed Marais Erasmus of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires, former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram, ex-England captain Nasser Hussain, former West Indies fast bowler Ian Bishop and Utpal Shuvro, one among Bangladesh’s senior-most cricket correspondents.
Full squad:
Rohit Sharma (India), Stephan Myburgh (Netherlands), Virat Kohli (India), J.P. Duminy (South Africa), Glenn Maxwell (Australia), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (India – captain), Darren Sammy (West Indies), Ravichandran Ashwin (India), dale Steyn (South Africa), Samuel Badree (West Indies) and Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka); 12th Player: Krishmar Santokie (West Indies).