Veteran all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin has congratulated Suryakumar Yadav after the star batter was named captain of India for the upcoming T20I collection in opposition to Australia, beginning on Thursday, November 23. Suryakumar will lead the staff within the absence of standard captain Rohit Sharma, who has been rested India’s World Cup ultimate defeat to Australia, and vice-captain Hardik Pandya, who’s out of motion as a result of an harm. The likes of Rohit, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, amongst others have all been rested for the five-match collection.
Suryakumar will lead the staff whereas Ruturaj Gaikwad will likely be his deputy for the primary three T20Is. Shreyas Iyer will be a part of the squad for the final two T20Is in Raipur and Bengaluru, respectively, and he’ll take over the function of vice-captain from Gaikwad.
Taking to Instagram, Ashwin wished Suryakumar, the no. 1 T20I batter, “better of luck” as will get set to guide India in opposition to Australia.
“Congrats @surya_14kumar. Go properly buddy. Honour to guide the nation,” Ashwin wrote on his Instagram story.
India have solely named three gamers from the current World Cup squad – Prasidh Krishna, Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar himself.
In the meantime, for Australia, Aaron Hardie has been added to the squad after veteran opener David Warner pulled out of the collection.
India squad: 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
Australia squad: Matthew Wade (Capt), Aaron Hardie, Jason Behrendorff, Sean Abbott, Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Matt Quick, Steve Smith, Marcus Stoinis, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa.
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