India, Aug. 22 -- The 15-member squad for the Asia Cup was announced earlier this week. However, the Indian team management continues to receive flak for the exclusion of Shreyas Iyer and Yashasvi Jaiswal. The latter is in the five-member reserves list; however, Iyer wasn't that lucky as he did not make the cut. Both Shreyas and Jaiswal had solid campaigns for Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season; hence, many are not able to make sense of their ouster from the main team.

Former India batter Manoj Tiwary put head coach Gautam Gambhir under the scanner, bringing his old interview into the equation. In it, he had spoken highly about Jaiswal and how he deserves to be in the T20I squad.

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