Anil Kumble: India dropping Ambati Rayudu for the 2019 World Cup was a ‘huge blunder’

Anil Kumble: India dropping Ambati Rayudu for the 2019 World Cup was a ‘huge blunder’

Former India captain and coach Anil Kumble has criticised India’s decision to leave Ambati Rayudu out of their 2019 World Cup squad.

The Indian think-tank faced a conundrum ahead of the 2019 World Cup: they had very few all-rounders. None of their batters bowled, and most of their frontline bowlers were genuine tail-enders.

India’s main fast bowlers, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami, and their trusted wrist-spinners, Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav, fell under this category.

Hardik Pandya was their lone all-rounder, but he was their fifth bowler, and India did not have a sixth bowler. Picking Ravindra Jadeja in England woul

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