XtraTime Web Desk: The Indian cricket team for the 2019 World Cup in England will be announced in Mumbai on April 15. The BCCI’s chief selection committee will discuss the performances of the cricketers in the ongoing IPL season as there are still have a spots up for grabs in the squad.
The Men in Blue will first face South Africa in their first match of the tournament on June 5, 2019. The spots which will be discussed in the meeting will be the number 4 spot, the position of an all-rounder and the number of spinners traveling to England.
Indian vice-captain Rohit Sharma has already said that the squad will be conditions-based and that the inputs of Ravi Shastri and Virat Kohli will be factored in before picking the squad.
“I think we are pretty much settled. There are a few spots (undecided) which everyone knows about but again that depends on what the captain and the coach and the selectors think whether they want to go for the extra seamer or the extra spinner or extra middle order player or a reserve opener.
“It also depends upon the conditions. The last time we were in England, the conditions were quite dry. I don’t know how things will be. So if it is like that than you take an extra spinner, as simple as that. If it’s not then probably take the extra seamer,” he said in Mumbai.