Rinku Singh's Father Reveals Family Had Bought Firecrackers: 'Called His Mother... He was Heartbroken'

Rinku Singh was relegated to the reserves group as selectors announced India’s provisional squad for the T20 World Cup. The dimunitve finisher has played 15 T20Is having scored 356 runs with the highest score of 69 at a strike rate of 176.24 and av average of 89.0.

India are placed in Group A of the tournament alongside arch-rivals Pakistan, Ireland, Canada and co-hosts USA and will begin their T20 World Cup campaign against Ireland on June 5 at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, New York, followed by the marquee clash against Pakistan on June 9 at the same venue. India will then play the USA and Canada on June 12 and 15 respectively.

India Squad for T20 World Cup: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Hardik Pandya (Vice Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj.

Reserves – Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed and Avesh Khan

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Rinku’s father, Khanchandra Singh, revealed in a recent interview that revealed that the Indian star cricketer’s family had purchased firecrackers.

“We bought firecrackers as we thought Rinku would be in the Playing XI,” Rinku’s father told News24.

“Rinku called his mother and broke the news, he was heartbroken,” he added.

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Rinku Singh has done no wrong since making his India debut in August last year and before the IPL, was considered a certainty in the India squad.

Those who were privy to the selection meeting held in Ahmedabad on Tuesday unanimously agreed that Rinku became an easy omission for the panel because he couldn’t be fitted alongside Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube in the same 15.

Kolkata Knight Riders treated Rinku as a finisher and he never got a chance to bat in the top five. In eight innings before selection, he played merely 82 balls, which is just about 10 balls per innings.

(With inputs from Agencies)