What if the following players refused to tour Australia for tests?

[BacktoCricaddict]

Hold your laughter and entertain this thought for a minute.  What if some senior players decided that, for personal reasons, they did not want to tour Australia for the test series?  Also assume that BCCI gives them permission to stay back.  

 

Ajinkya Rahane

Rohit Sharma

Umesh Yadav

Ishant Sharma

Ravichandran Ashwin

Wriddhiman Saha

 

You are now asked to pick a XVI without these guys.  Whom would you pick?  

 

First XI 

Mayank Agarwal

Prithvi Shaw

Cheteshwar Pujara (VC)

Virat Kohli (C)

Shubman Gill

Rishabh Pant (wk)

Hardik Pandya

Ravindra Jadeja

Mohammed Shami

Jasprit Bumrah

Navdeep Saini

 

Reserves:

Man, this is really tough with no recent data from domestic or India A to fall back on.  

 

K L Rahul (can fill in on top or middle order if someone gets hurt or under performs)

Prasidh Krishna (fast)

Srikar Bharat (or have to rely on Rahul as back up keeper.  In test matches, that could be disastrous)

Kuldeep Yadav (spin; for SCG, replace Saini with this guy)

Hanuma Vihari (middle order)

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 8, 2020 by BacktoCricaddict

[Norman]

13 hours ago, BacktoCricaddict said:

Ajinkya Rahane

Rohit Sharma

Umesh Yadav

Ishant Sharma

Ravichandran Ashwin

Wriddhiman Saha

Barring Ishant I'll be okay if the rest do decide to do that.