India have announced their star-studded squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup, which commences from first June in the USA and the Caribbeans. Former Indian cricketer and Cricket analyst, Aakash Chopra noted that Indian selectors gave precedence to past performances over recent form while picking players. He also added, if recent form was the outline then T Natarajan would've been picked.

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Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh and Mohammed Siraj were the three specialist seamers picked in the Indian squad for the mega event. In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Chopra opined that past performances for India might have helped Arshdeep and Siraj pip Natarajan to the second and third pacers' spots.

"There are three fast bowlers - Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep and Siraj. Once again, the selectors thought they should go on continuity and ignore the recent form. They haven't gone with recent-form bias or else they should have kept T Natarajan," he said (6:25).

"They could have gone towards him, but they said they don't need him, because Siraj has done well for them earlier, no matter how the current form is. Arshdeep's form is also not looking very exciting but you will keep him because he has been doing well for the last little while," the former India opener added.