India’s Squad Announcement for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Against Australia: When is the First Match?

India's Squad Announcement for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Against Australia: When is the First Match?

Indian team’s tour of South Africa and Australia: An important chapter

Team India under the leadership of Rohit Sharma is currently playing a Test series against New Zealand. The second match of this series is being played in Pune. BCCI has made a big announcement during this match. BCCI has announced the Indian squad for the tour of South Africa and Australia. Team India will play a total of 4 matches T20I series in the South Africa tour.

Suryakumar Yadav will lead this team. In the Australia tour (Border Gavaskar Trophy), Team India will play a test series of 5 matches. Rohit Sharma will captain the Indian team in this series. Who got a chance in the T20i series? Before we know it, who has a chance for the Border Gavaskar Trophy, which is decided by the scale of prestige and the World Test Championship final? Let’s find out.

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Selection of Test and T20I team

The selection committee has selected a total of 21 people for this series. Out of these 21 players, 18 players are included in the main team. So 3 cricketers are reserved. Among the reserve players, Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, and Khalil Ahmed have been given a chance. Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, and Abhimanyu Iswaran have been selected for the first time in Test cricket.

Both Rishabh Pant and Dhruv Jurel have been selected as wicketkeepers for the Australia tour. Apart from that, KL Rahul has been successful in maintaining his place in the team. R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, and Washington Sundar have been included as spinners. These three will be responsible for batting along with bowling.

Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, and Harshit Rana will be the focus of fast bowling. Prasidh has made a comeback in the team after many months. Prasidhan made his Test debut during the South Africa tour last year.

Both Akshar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav have not been given a chance for this tour. Akshar will play in the T20I series of the South Africa tour. While Kuldeep Yadav is struggling with injury, he is gearing up for a comeback in NC.

Border-Gavaskar Trophy Schedule

Match Number Dates Venue
1 November 22 to 26 Perth
2 December 6 to 10 Adelaide Oval
3 December 14 to 18 Gabba
4 December 26 to 30 Melbourne
5 January 3 to 7 Sydney

Team India for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Iswaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Sarfraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Washington Sundar.

Reserves: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khalil Ahmed.

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