Suryakumar Yadav Named Team India T20I Captain For Sri Lanka Tour
By : DC Web Desk
Update: 2024-07-18 14:44 GMT
New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday has announced the T20I and ODI squad for the upcoming Sri Lanka tour, which is set to begin from July 27.
Suryakumar Yadav will lead the squad in T20Is and Rohit Sharma will be captaining the squad in ODIs.
Suryakumar Yadav was named ahead of Hardik Pandya who was the vice-captain of the 2024 T20 World Cup winning squad.
Surya was appointed as the T20 captain following Rohit Sharma's retirement from the shorter format after winning the World Cup.
Shubman Gill will be the vice-captain in both T20Is and ODIs for the Sri Lanka tour.
Team India will play three T20Is and three ODIs in the series. The ODI series will start from August 2.
This would be Gautam Gambhir's first assignment as Team India head coach.
Here's the full squad:
T20I Squad: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Ꮪhubman Gill (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Riyan Parag, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Mohd. Siraj.
ODI Squad: Rohit Sharma (C), Ꮪhubman Gill (VC), Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (WK), Rishabh Pant (WK), Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Riyan Parag, Axar Patel, Khaleel Ahmed, Harshit Rana.