New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India has announced a three-match T20 series against Afghanistan. Veteran regular captains Rohit (Rohit ) Sharma and Virat Kohli both have returned. The series is going to start from January 11 in Mohali. Due to the confirmation of these two veterans, the announcement of the team was getting delayed. There were talks that both Rohit and Virat Kohli would be out of the three-match series against Afghanistan, but the selection committee actually wanted to select the top 15 players in the team. And all the BCCI officials were also of the same opinion that all the top players should participate in the only bilateral series before the T20 World Cup to be held in June. And the board was successful in convincing both Virat and Rohit. The 16-member Indian team announced against Afghanistan is as follows:
Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Tilak Verma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Sanju Sassaman (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dubey, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh. , Avesh Khan and Mukesh Kumar
He was out due to injury
If we compare with the team that played against South Africa recently, then injured Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya have not got a place in this team. Yadav got injured in the third match against South Africa, while Hardik Pandya is out of the World Cup.
These were also kept out
Recently, Shreyas Iyer was also in the team against South Africa and Mohammad Siraj was also a part of it, but now both of them are not in the team against Afghanistan. Along with these two, Jasprit Bumrah has also been rested. At the same time, Ravindra Jadeja has also gone on rest. At the same time, Deepak Chahar, who could not go to South Africa due to personal reasons, is also not in the team. At the same time, Ishan Kishan has also not been included in the team and this time the selectors have given place to Sanju Sassaman in the team as the second wicketkeeper.
This all-rounder also returned
Now that Hardik Pandya is injured, the selection committee has tried to fill in for him with Mumbai’s Shivam Dubey, who has returned after a long time. Shivam Dubey has played 18 T20 and one ODI matches for India. Although Dubey was in the Indian team selected for the Asian Games held in October last year, he was sent to the second row team in these games.