While wrist-spinners are dominating the white-ball cricket in the last few years, Amit Mishra finds himself out of India’s limited-overs set-up.

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Mishra, who has featured in 22 Tests, 36 ODIs and 10 T20Is, last played for the country in February 2017. Despite being one of the leading leg-spinners in the Ranji Trophy for Haryana and in the IPL for Delhi Capitals, Mishra has failed to impress the selectors.

The emergence of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal hasn’t helped his cause either. However, Mishra on Sunday (May 10) raised questions for being sidelined from the national team and lack of chances over the years.

“I still question myself why this happened with me. No one has been able to give me a satisfactory answer. It was a rule in the team that if someone was forced out with an injury, he would come back to the team. Wriddhiman Saha made a comeback after a 1.5-year injury layoff. I don’t know why this did not happen with me,” Mishra told Sports Tak.

“Even when I was in form, whenever the axe needed to fall on someone, it had to be Mishra,” he added.

The 37-year-old also claimed that the selectors or the team management didn’t communicate with him on what he needed to do to stage a comeback after injury.

Revealing he had received assurance from India skipper Virat Kohli that he would speak to the national selectors about him, Mishra said, “I have performed for India at every opportunity, even when thrown into the toughest situations.”

Because of the manner his international career ended, Amit Mishra wishes to play for India for the one last time.

“I was removed from the team at the peak of my performance because of injury,” he said.