Three recent selection controversies that affected the Indian team

#1 Pandey in, Gill out

Shubman Gill in action for India.

Well, it's not the World Cup and the selectors are bound to experiment with new names but even here, some choices made by the Prasad-led committee seem whimsical.

How do you explain picking Manish Pandey in the team and not give Shubman Gill a look-in in any of the squads? Let's look at the stats from the recently-concluded India A tour of the Windies. Gill was the top-scorer for the tourists with 218 runs at an average of 55.50 while Pandey scored 162 runs at 40.50, having played one game more than Gill. Gill was declared the Man of the Series of the five-match contest.

Brilliant series win and happy to have won the player of the tournament. Always proud to wear the blue of India 🇮🇳💙 pic.twitter.com/t1u7CouAqk

— Shubman Gill (@RealShubmanGill) July 22, 2019

While Pandey had once been tried as the elusive no.4, he was dropped from the national team's plans quite unceremoniously. Gill, on the other hand, had a great IPL and was part of a recent India team that travelled to New Zealand.

Thus, he is bound to be disappointed by the omission and will think what else he needs to do to merit a place in the senior team. Sometimes, pure logic is not enough to explain who gets into the team, the path to the pinnacle is a twisted one for sure.