Shikhar Dhawan will lead India within the white-ball tour of Sri Lanka, with Bhuvneshwar Kumar appointed vice-captain, the Board of Control for Cricket in India introduced of their web site on Thursday. India and Sri Lanka will play three ODIs and three T20Is within the collection.
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The ODIs might be performed on July 13, July 16 and July 18. The T20Is might be performed on July 21, 23 and 25. All matches might be performed on the R Premadasa International Cricket Stadium, Colombo. India will attain Sri Lanka on June 28.
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With the Test group in England for the ICC World Test Championship last and the next five-match collection in opposition to England, the group has loads of recent faces.
Talking factors from the choice:
First time call-ups: Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Nitish Rana and Chetan Sakariya received maiden India call-ups after spectacular performances in IPL 2021, earlier than it was suspended. Okay Gowtham, the Karnataka and CSK participant, was picked too.
Back within the combine: Prithvi Shaw, Manish Pandey, Sanju Samson are again too. Shaw has been in excellent contact ever since being dropped from the Indian Test facet, and is all set to open with Dhawan. Samson was disregarded of the Indian T20I squad lately, with India going for Ishan Kishan, who is part of this squad too. Pandey has not been in nice kind in T20Is, however might have been picked with the ODIs in thoughts.
Varun Chakravarthy picked: The Tamil Nadu and KKR thriller spinner Varun has been having points with health assessments. He was picked for the white-ball leg of tour of Australia initially late final 12 months, however was then injured. He was then part of the India squad for the England T20Is, however failed the health check. He is now part of the squad for the SL collection.
No place for: Shreyas Iyer shouldn’t be within the squad, which suggests he’s nonetheless recovering from his shoulder harm.
Ravi Bishnoi, the younger legspinner, doesn’t make the minimize too, with India having two robust legspinners in Yuzvendra Chahal and Rahul Chahar.
TN and KKR keeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik expressed his hopes of creating a comeback too, however that isn’t to be.
Rahul Dravid is predicted to coach the facet, though the BCCI is but to announce it formally.
The squad:
Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana, Ishan Kishan (Wicket-keeper), Sanju Samson (Wicket-keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar, Okay Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Vice-captain), Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya
Net bowlers: Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh, Sai Kishore, Simarjeet Singh
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