Chief selector Sanjay Patil has admitted that it was a mistake to drop promising youngsters like Ayush Mhatre and Angkrish Raghuvanshi to include current Test players for Mumbai’s crucial Ranji Trophy league game against Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) last week. Rohit Sharma and opener Yashasvi Jaiswal were the two current Test players in the Mumbai XI which also included skipper Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube and Shardul Thakur in the defending champions’ five-wicket loss to unfancied J&K.

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“At the start of the season, we selectors decided to promote youngsters between the age group of 21 and 24. We have invested in youngsters like Ayush, Himanshu Singh, Angkrish, Suryansh  Shedge and Atharva Ankolekar, who performed very well in local tournaments. And we started the season very well with these youngsters performing.