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With Indian team continuing to keep their faith in young fast bowler Harshit Rana while keeping a specialist spinner in Kuldeep Yadav on the bench, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has taken a dig at the selection committee for their “absurd" and “awful" call while expressing his frustration on X (formerly Twitter).
However, Tharoor has inadvertently ended up proving that the decision to keep Rana in the playing XI ahead of Kuldeep was indeed the right call.
How?
Tharoor cited how Xavier Bartlett, Australia’s right-arm pacer, picked up two wickets in his first over including that of Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli which “shows" the “idiocy" of Indian selectors decision.
It appears Tharoor may have confused Bartlett with his namesake Xavier Doherty – a former Austral