India identify three skippers for eight-match, multiformat tour of South Africa subsequent month with Rohit Sharma main the 2 Exams, Suryakumar Yadav for the T20s and KL Rahul for the ODIs.
Skipper Rohit Sharma and star batter Virat Kohli will skip the white-ball leg of India’s upcoming tour of South Africa, the nation’s cricket board says.
Rohit and Kohli had been a part of the India workforce that lost to Australia within the closing of the 50-overs dwelling Cricket World Cup this month.
In Rohit’s absence, Suryakumar Yadav will lead the aspect within the three-match T20 collection starting in Durban on December 10.
The tour is ready to run till January 7 and contains three T20Is, three ODIs and two Exams.
Wicketkeeper-batsman KL Rahul will take cost for the three one-day internationals that observe earlier than Rohit and Kohli return for the two-Check collection.
“Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli had requested the board for a break from the white-ball leg of the tour,” the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) mentioned in a press release on Thursday.
India dropped middle-order batter Ajinkya Rahane whereas Cheteshwar Pujara couldn’t pressure his approach again in as each seem on the finish of their worldwide careers.
Seamer Mohammed Shami was picked for the Exams in Centurion and Cape City, topic to him passing a health take a look at.
India’s Check squad:
Rohit (captain), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan, Rahul, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna
India’s T20 squad:
Jaiswal, Gill, Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Yadav (captain), Rinku Singh, Iyer, Kishan, Jitesh Sharma, Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Siraj, Kumar, Deepak Chahar
India’s ODI squad:
Gaikwad, Sai Sudharsan, Varma, Rajat Patidar, Rinku Singh, Iyer, Rahul (captain), Sanju Samson, Axar Patel, Sundar, Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kumar, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Chahar
