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Sunil Gavaskar picked an unusual India playing XI for the T20 World Cup match against Ireland..
Team India is all set to kick off their T20 World Cup campaign on Wednesday against Ireland at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York..
This will be India's first international game in the format since their win in the home series against Afghanistan earlier in January this year..
Ahead of the match, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, joining the bandwagon of fellow veteran cricketers, gave his two cents on the likely playing XI that captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Rahul Dravid might pick for the match against Ireland.nd..
The other major aspect in Gavaskar's line-up was the absence of Arshdeep Singh despite his impressive show in the warm-up game against Bangladesh last week in New York as the veteran batter preferred Mohammed Siraj as Jasprit Bumrah's lone back-up pacer..
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