Shikhar Dhawan to lead India in ODI in West Indies
Dhawan will lead the ODI squad. Image : AFP
Shikhar Dhawan has been allowed one more opportunity to lead India’s ODI side, this time on the visit through the Caribbean not long from now, with Ravindra Jadeja filling in as his representative in the 16-man crew. Assigned commander Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant and Mohammed Shami have all been refreshed for the three-match series, while KL Rahul, who as of late went through a medical procedure for a games hernia, was not considered for choice.
Shubman Gill gets back into the game after the visit through Australia in December 2020, while Sanju Samson is back following a year, having played his solitary ODI such a long ways in Sri Lanka last July. Samson and Ishan Kishan are the two wicketkeepers in the crew.
Arshdeep Singh, the left-arm pacer who has been remembered for an original capacity crew for the England ODIs in the not so distant future, has been held close by Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj and Shardul Thakur. Yuzvendra Chahal, Jadeja and Axar Patel – all piece of the England visit party – complete the twist division.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Avesh Khan and Deepak Hooda, who were totally avoided with regard to the ODI crew in England, have been incorporated. While opener Gaikwad and quick bowler Avesh are uncapped in the organization, Hooda is two matches old in ODIs, having made his presentation against West Indies this February.
Every one of the three players have secured themselves as key individuals from their separate IPL establishments. Gaikwad was the Orange Cap holder for scoring the most runs in IPL 2021 for champions Chennai Super Kings, while Avesh and Hooda are falling off noteworthy seasons for IPL debutants Lucknow Super Giants this year. All the more as of late, Hooda made his lady T20I century on the visit through Ireland before the end of last month.
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Gaikwad, in particilar, has been productive in 50-overs cricket, having hit 603 runs in five innings for Maharashtra during the homegrown 50-overs Vijay Hazare Trophy in December last year. He hit four centuries then, the joint-most noteworthy in a solitary version of the competition. He struck those runs at a strike pace of 112.94.
To a great extent seen as a one-design player now, Dhawan will lead India in a series just for the subsequent time. Last July, he drove a second-string crew on the white-ball visit through Sri Lanka, even as the regulars were in England for the WTC last against New Zealand as well as the Test series against England that followed.
Like Rahul, Deepak Chahar and Kuldeep Yadav were additionally not considered for choice, with the two of them recuperating from wounds. Washington Sundar, in the mean time, is in the last phases of his recovery, following which he will fly out to England for a short district stretch with Lancashire.
India’s visit through the Caribbean starts with the ODIs in Trinidad from July 22. They will likewise play five T20Is, across Trinidad, St Kitts and Nevis and Florida (USA), before the visit closes on August 7.
Squad : Shikhar Dhawan (C), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shubman Gill, Deepak Hooda, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Ravindra Jadeja (VC), Shardul Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Avesh Khan, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh
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