NEW DELHI : Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer will share captaincy during the ODI series against New Zealand. Gill will lead the team in the first 3 ODIs before leaving the camp to prepare for the Test series. Iyer will lead the team in the last two ODIs. Jasprit Bumrah will only play the Test series. Ishan Kishan, who isn’t part of the Test team, has joined the leadership group for the first time. He will assist Iyer in the last two ODIs.
The Pragyan Ojha-headed selection committee hasn’t made many changes to the squad for the first three games. Tilak Varma, Yash Thakur and Kumar Kushagra are part of only the last two games. This is the maiden India call-up for wicketkeeper-batter Kushagra.
Bumrah, who will only play the Test series, will lead the pace attack, which has the likes of Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, Anshul Kamboj and Akash Deep, who has made his Test return.
Rishabh Pant has been named in the Test team, but his participation is subject to clearance. Dhruv Jurel is the second wicketkeeper in the Test squad.
The India tour of New Zealand will kick off with five T20Is, to be played on October 22, 24, 27, 30 and November 1. The five ODIs will take place on November 4, 7, 10, 13 and 15. The two Tests will start on November 19 and 27.
India’s ODI squad for the first three ODIs:
Shubman Gill [C], Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer [VC], KL Rahul [WK], Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Gurnoor Brar, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Arshdeep Singh, Ishan Kishan [WK], Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna*, Kuldeep Yadav
India’s ODI squad for fourth and fifth ODIs: Shreyas Iyer [C], Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan [WK, VC], Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Naman Dhir, Auqib Nabi, Gurnoor Brar, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Arshdeep Singh, Kumar Kushagra [WK], Mohammed Siraj, Yash Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav
India’s Test squad: Shubman Gill [C], Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul [VC], Devdutt Padikkal, Rishabh Pant [WK]*, Dhruv Jurel [WK], Ravindra Jadeja, Anshul Kamboj, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Sai Sudharsan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj
