Suryakumar Yadav will captain India in the T20I series against Australia. Suryakumar Yadav will captain India in the five-match T20I series against Australia, which begins on November 12 in Visakhapatnam.
Former India cricketer VVS Laxman name head coach for the series, which concludes on December 3 in Bangalore. The majority of the Ireland series team has been maintaine. Meanwhile, Jasprit Bumrah, the series’ captain, has been rested.
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The next match versus Australia will be India’s first following the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup in 2023.
The Rohit Sharma-led side was brilliant throughout the tournament but fell short in the championship match against the same opponents on November 19 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, losing out on earning the coveted trophy for the third time.
Suryakumar provides tremendous leadership experience from his time as captain of the Mumbai squad at the domestic level as well as the India Under-23 team in the Emerging Cup a few years back. The world’s top-ranked T20I hitter had previously served as team India’s vice-captain during the West Indies trip.
Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad (vice-captain), Ishan Kishan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar are the Indian team
Prasidh Krishna, who played in the World Cup, also named to the forthcoming series. Meanwhile, Hardik Pandya, who has been out since suffering an ankle injury during the main event, will not be considered owing to the requirement for further rehabilitation time.
The national team selectors, who met in Ahmedabad, had previously considered Shreyas Iyer for captaincy. They changed their minds, citing worries over the middle-order batter’s workload in recent months, beginning with the Asia Cup. He will, however, serve as vice-captain for the team’s final two games in Raipur and Bengaluru.
Furthermore, the selection of VVS Laxman as a coach is said to be to help India head coach Rahul Dravid manage his workload after three months of hard work. Furthermore, Dravid’s formal term concluded with the World Cup. Dravid has yet to consider his future intentions, having focused only on the World Cup.
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