Irfan Pathan Named His Team of the World Cup 2023: The ODI World Cup 2023 concluded on Sunday, November 19th with a heartbreaking note for the Indian cricket fans as Australia defeated the Men in Blue by six wickets at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Australia became the me the World Champions for a record-extending 6th time.
Irfan Pathan Named His Team of the World Cup 2023
Former Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan, who was a part of the Hindi Commentary Team for the official broadcasters of the World Cup 2023, took to his social media and shared his Team of the tournament.
Irfan Pathan took to his social media, on November 20th, and named his Team of the tournament, picking a 12-man squad, consisting of some of the best-performing players in the tournament.
Irfan Pathan picked Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock as his openers. He then picked Indian batting maestro Virat Kohli as his number 3 player. Notably, Virat won the ‘Player of the Tournament’ award as he emerged as the highest run-scorer with 765 runs. New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra and Australia’s Glenn Maxwell were picked as two spin-bowling all-rounders in the squad.
Irfan picked Rohit Sharma as his captain
Ravindra Jadeja had an amazing tournament as he amassed 578 runs in 10 games.
Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Marco Jansen and Gerald Coetzee are the four pacers in Irfan’s team. With 24 wickets, Shami finished as the tournament’s highest wicket-taker. He only played 7 games but managed to pick 24 wickets. Bumrah picked 20 wickets in 11 games. South African’s Jansen and Coetzee picked 17 and 20 wickets, respectively.
The former all-rounder picked Shreyas Iyer as the 12th man in his team. Shreyas gave a brilliant performance with the bat as he smashed 530 runs at an average of 66.25.
