T20 World Cup 2021: Wasim Jaffer predicts India’s playing XI for Pakistan game with IPL reference

Fans, experts, former cricketers have started naming their predicted playing XIs for Team India against arch-rivals Pakistan in their opening game in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup and former India batter Wasim Jaffer joined the bandwagon in his usual style on social media on the eve of the game.

Before the games, Jaffer asks the fans to decode his players to watch out for or the predicted playing XI with memes or some clues and he did the same on Saturday, this time with an IPL reference.

Jaffer put the name of the IPL teams instead of the name of the player at every position in the line-up, and the fans found it a bit easier this time as they just wanted to match the position of a player with his franchise and they could decode it.

Jaffer’s post mentioned the line-up in this order — Mumbai Indians, Punjab Kings, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Delhi Capitals, Mumbai Indians, Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Chennai Super Kings, Punjab Kings, Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders.

This is my team for tomorrow. What’s yours? #INDvPAK #T20WorldCup pic.twitter.com/X3j7cAEwqE

— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) October 23, 2021

The Indian team won’t leave Rohit Sharma for the first game, so it was easy to decode for the fans and a couple of Chennai Super Kings meant he had both Ravindra Jadeja and Shardul Thakur in his line-up instead of Bhuvneshwar Kumar or the third spinner.

Wasim Jaffer’s playing XI for India vs Pakistan: Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli(c), Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakravarthy