The BCCI selection committee has announced the Tests, ODI’s And T20I’s squads for the tour of South Africa . Superstar Virat Kohli takes a break from white ball formats and will return for the Tests. Rohit Sharma too like Virat will return for Test series.
The BCCI stated that Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli had requested the Board for a break from the white-ball leg of the tour.
Rohit Sharma will lead the side the in the Tests. In T20’s Suryakumar Yadav will don the skipper’s role , while KL Rahul Will captain the side in the ODI series.
The team will play – three T20Is, three ODIs and two Test matches during the tour.
India’s squad for 3 T20Is: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (C), Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Ravindra Jadeja (VC), Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Siraj,…
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India’s squad for 3 ODIs: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sai Sudharsan, Tilak Varma, Rajat Patidar, Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (C)(wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mukesh Kumar, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Deepak Chahar.#SAvIND
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India’s squad for 2 Tests: Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wk), KL Rahul (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohd. Shami*, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Prasidh…
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Upcoming star Yashasvi Jaiswal has been named in the Test squad and T20I squad, while Sanju Samson has also been picked for the ODI series in South Africa. B Sai Sudharshan and Rinku Singh have received maiden call-ups in the Indian ODI squad. Seamer Deepak Chahar makes a comeback in both T20I’s and ODI’s.