{"id":780055,"date":"2026-02-21T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/780055\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:00:18","slug":"shastri-talks-up-india-xi-with-all-bases-covered-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/780055\/","title":{"rendered":"Shastri talks up India XI with \u2018all bases covered\u2019 | ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, India wrapped up their group stage with a dominant win over Netherlands, taking their winning streak at T20 World Cups to 12.<\/p>\n<p>Former India coach Ravi Shastri believes the two-time champions, who have an embarrassment of riches in the line-up, may have found their best XI. He believes India will continue with the team that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/mens-t20-world-cup-2026\/news\/live-proteas-field-first-in-delhi-with-uae-their-next-opponent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">got the better of the Dutch<\/a> when they begin the Super Eight phase against South Africa on Sunday, February 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it will be pretty much the same side because you&#8217;ve got depth, you&#8217;ve got all bases covered, you&#8217;ve got options, you need options,\u201d Shastri told The ICC Review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen there&#8217;s dew around, you need that extra bowling option. Whether it&#8217;s a Shivam Dube, whether it&#8217;s Hardik (Pandya) bowling his full quota of overs, whether it&#8217;s Tilak Varma who might roll his arm for an over or two, you need those options. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll tinker with the side. I think the team that played in the last game was a good side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the positive (for India) is that in every game there&#8217;s been someone who stood up. It has been Ishan Kishan, sometimes Surya (Suryakumar Yadav) in the first game. Tilak Varma has played his part. He&#8217;s got off to starts but I still think the best of him is still to come. I look at it as a positive that Abhishek Sharma has got three zeros. So, save your best for the important periods in the tournament. Teams will be a little worried that he&#8217;s not got runs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, India wrapped up their group stage with a dominant win over Netherlands, taking their winning streak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,145387,145385,11096,145401,186692,145406,145388,2192,145405,186690,145389,30566,186695,79,186691,186693,145386,16,15,186694],"class_list":{"0":"post-780055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","10":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","11":"tag-cricket-news","12":"tag-cricket-series-updates","13":"tag-cricket-world-cup-headlines","14":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","15":"tag-cricket-world-news","16":"tag-icc","17":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","18":"tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-news","19":"tag-international-cricket-news","20":"tag-latest-cricket-news","21":"tag-latest-icc-announcements","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-t20-world-cup-news-updates","24":"tag-today-cricket-match-news","25":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-world-cup-cricket-articles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116110401611871745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}