Mumbai | After a gap of one year, Malayalee player Sanju Samson is back in the Indian team. He has been included in the squad for the Twenty20 match once morest Sri Lanka starting on Thursday. Rohit Sharma has been named captain of the Indian Test team. Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant have been rested for the T20 series. Chetan Sharma, chairman of the Indian selection committee, announced the new team at a press conference.
Rohit Sharma, who captained the ODI and Twenty20 teams, also captained the Test team and captained all three formats of cricket. Rohit Sharma will begin his Test captaincy with a two-match Test series between India and Sri Lanka in Mohali from March 4. This is Rohit’s first time taking charge of the Test team. Rohit, who played his first Test for India in 2013, is the 35th Test captain of Team India.
Virat Kohli has resigned as Test captain following his side’s defeat in the Test series once morest South Africa. The question of who will be the next Indian Test captain following Kohli’s vacancy has been active in the corridors of cricket. That is the answer given by the BCCI. The names of KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Jaspreet Bumra also rose to the captaincy but the last toss fell to Rohit.
Sanju Samson joined the Indian cricket team through an active performance. In August 2014, Sanju made his Test debut for India’s 17 – member squad for five ODIs and one Twenty20 once morest England. But he did not get a place in any of the matches. Sanju made his international debut in July 2015 once morest Zimbabwe in Harare.
He was named in India’s Twenty20 squad for the series once morest Bangladesh in October 2019. In November 2019, Shikhar Dhawan was recalled to the T20 series once morest the West Indies due to injury. Played the third T20 once morest Sri Lanka.
He was selected for the T20I series of the India tour of New Zealand and played as the opener. He was named in India’s Twenty20 International squad for the series once morest Australia in October 2020. He was named in India’s ODI squad for the series once morest Australia on November 9. He scored a total of 48 runs in 3 innings and did not get a good series. His fielding efforts were praised by critics.
T20 team:
Rohit Sharma (captain), Rituraj Geekwad, Ishant Kishan (wicket-keeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Jaspreet Bumra (vice-captain), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Harshal Patel, Mohammad, Wicket keeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Yusvendra Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Avesh Khan.
Test Squad:
Rohit Sharma (capt), Mayank Agarwal, Priyank Panchal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Shubhman Gill, Rishabh Pant, KS Bharat, R Ashwin (fitness), Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav (Kuldeep Yadav) ), Mohammad Shami, Mohammad Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Saurabh Kumar.