India squad vs Sri Lanka announced: The Indian squad for the upcoming T20I and ODI series against Sri Lanka was announced by BCCI on Thursday. Rohit Sharma will be leading the unit in the 50-over format, with Shubman Gill his deputy. Meanwhile, on expected lines Suryakumar Yadav will lead the team in shorter format, with Gill being promoted as the vice-captain.
Earlier this month, Gill had led a second string Indian unit to a 4-1 win against Zimbabwe in the T20Is. Meanwhile, Hardik Pandya, who was Rohit's deputy in the T20 World Cup, will only play the shorter format. He had earlier made himself unavailable for the ODIs due to personal reasons.
This will be Gautam Gambhir's first stint as India's head coach, and on his request Rohit and Virat Kohli have made themselves available for the three ODIs. Earlier it was reported that both the senior pros would give ODIs a miss.
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In an interesting development, Riyan Parag and Harshit Rana have made the cut for the 50-over format. Parag was recently inducted in the national setup when the team travelled to Zimbabwe for a 5-match T20I series. He was also handed India cap but could only muster 24 runs in the two innings he got to play.
Rana, on the other hand, is yet to earn a India cap despite traveling with the team to Zimbabwe. He had a decent IPL 2024 and played under the mentorship of current head coach Gambhir in the Kolkata Knight Riders camp.
Meanwhile, Kuldeep will only be part of the team in the 50-over format. Jasprit Bumrah, team's premier pacer, has been rested for both the formats.
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The series consists of three T20Is and as many ODIs. It gets underway with the shorter format, with the first T20I scheduled to be played on July 27 in Pallekele. It will be followed by the remaining two T20 games on July 28 and July 30 at the same venue.
The ODIs was initially scheduled to start from August 1, but will now begin on August 2 in Colombo. Similarly, the remaining two ODI encounters will be played at the same venue. However, there are gaps between the ODIs, with the second scheduled to be played on August 4 and the tour will conclude on August 7.
This will be India’s first white-ball bilateral tour to Sri Lanka since 2021. Rahul Dravid was the stand-in coach then, with Shikhar Dhawan leading a second-string unit.
India's T20I squad vs SL: T20I Squad: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Ꮪhubman Gill (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Riyan Parag, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Mohd. Siraj.
India's ODI squad vs SL: Rohit Sharma (C), Ꮪhubman Gill (VC), Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (WK), Rishabh Pant (WK), Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Riyan Parag, Axar Patel, Khaleel Ahmed, Harshit Rana.
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