At the helm: Rahul, the ODI captain and Suryakumar, the T20I skipper. File
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday named three skippers for their eight-match multi-format tour of South Africa subsequent month, with Rohit Sharma main the Tests facet and Suryakumar Yadav and Okay.L. Rahul helming the T20I and ODI sides respectively.
The tour, which opens on December 10 with a T20I in Durban and is about to run till January 7, contains three T20Is, three ODIs and two Tests, BCCI stated in a press launch.
The board stated Rohit and Virat Kohli had requested for a break from the white-ball leg of the tour. Mohd. Shami is present process medical therapy and his availability was topic to health.
The squads: Tests: Rohit Sharma (capt.), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan, Okay.L. Rahul, R. Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohd. Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, and Prasidh Krishna.
T20Is: Suryakumar Yadav (capt.), Jaiswal, Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Shreyas, Ishan, Jitesh Sharma, Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Siraj, Mukesh, and Deepak Chahar.
ODIs: Rahul (capt.), Ruturaj, Sai Sudharsan, Tilak, Rajat Patidar, Rinku, Shreyas, Sanju Samson, Axar Patel, Washington, Kuldeep, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mukesh, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep, and Deepak Chahar.
The schedule: 1st T20I: Dec. 10, Durban; 2nd T20I: Dec. 12, Gqeberha; third T20I: Dec. 14, Johannesburg.
1st ODI: Dec. 17, Johannesburg; 2nd ODI: Dec. 19, Gqeberha; third ODI: Dec. 21, Paarl.
1st Test: Dec. 26 to 30, Centurion; 2nd Test: Jan. 3 to 7, 2024, Cape Town.
