India’s star batsman Suryakumar Yadav is all set to captain India’s second team in the five-match T20 series against Australia starting Thursday. After an impressive but heartbreaking performance at the ICC event, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced the India squad for the upcoming Twenty20 International series against Australia.
Experienced Indian players such as Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami are set to take a break after the 2023 ODI World Cup, giving full play to young talent. It will give them an opportunity to show off their mettle ahead of the world competition. Important T20 World Cup 2024.
All-rounder Hardik Pandya sustained an ankle injury during the league match of ICC World Cup 2023. The medical team reportedly advised Pandya to take six to eight weeks off as he could miss the second half of the major and ultimately the South African series starting in December. It is said that he did.
With Pandya unavailable for the Australia series, middle-order batsman Suryakumar will lead India in the Twenty20 International. Shreyas Iyer will be the team’s vice-captain for the final two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) to be played in Raipur and Bangalore. Meanwhile, Asian gold medalist Ruturaj Gaikwad will deputize for Suryakumar and his Yadav in his first two matches of T20.
It is noteworthy that Sanju Samson and Yuzvendra Chahal were not in the 15-man squad for the Australia series. The Men in Blue have been aggressive in T20 cricket as they have invested players like Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma and Tilak Varma in the shorter formats of the game and they are looking forward to 2024 It could be crucial to the team’s chances in T20 cricket this year. The World Cup will be held in the West Indies and America.
VVS Laxman, director of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore, is expected to lead Team India in the five-match Twenty20 International series against Australia. It wasn’t that long ago that VVS Laxman took charge of his Indian team in international cricket. He was the head coach of the men’s team that won gold medals at the 2023 Asian Games and his three-match T20I series against Ireland.
Kader of India: Suryakumar Yadav (Kapitan), Ruturaj Gaikwad (Vizekapitan), Ishan Kishan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (Watche), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel . , Shivam Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar (in the last two T20 matches he was Shreyas Iyer)
