Shikhar Dhawan will captain India on their limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka.
Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Nitish Rana, K Gowtham, and Chetan Sakariya have all received their first national team call-ups, and will be part of India’s 20-man squad for the July white-ball series in Sri Lanka.The second-string squad will be led by opening batter Shikhar Dhawan, who has never led India before, with fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar serving as vice-captain. The main team will be in England at the time.
Source: ESPN CricInfo
India’s tour of Sri Lanka consists of six games: three ODIs (on July 13, 16, and 18), followed by three T20Is (July 21, 23, 25). Former India captain Rahul Dravid has been confirmed as the tour’s head coach, though the BCCI did not announce the entire roster of support staff when it released details of the squad, which will include five reserve bowlers, on Thursday.
The schedule for India’s three-match ODI series and three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka was announced earlier this week. The three one-day internationals will be played on July 13, 16, and 18. The T20I series will begin on July 21, with the next two matches taking place on July 23 and 25.
There will be no Indian players in the Sri Lanka series who are part of the travelling group for the World Test Championship final and the England Test series. Rahul Dravid, the current National Cricket Academy (NCA) head and former India captain, will coach the Indian limited-overs team in a six-game series against Sri Lanka in July.
Source: ESPN CricInfo
India’s 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, K 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. (ANI)
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