After the announcement of the squad for one test match against Afghanistan, the BCCI has announced the squads for India’s 2 T20I’s against Ireland and 3 T20I’s against England. Along with that, they made the announcement for 3 matches ODI series against England.
In the T20I squad, Virat Kohli will return as captain. Rohit Sharma led India to T20I series win in Nidhas Tri-Series tournament with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as the 3rd team.
Washington Sundar has been included in the squad. With great performances in the ongoing IPL, Sunrisers Hyderabad fast bowler Siddarth Kaul would be making his debut. Umesh Yadav has been also included in the T20I squad.
Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur and Jaydev Unadkat have been dropped from the T20I squad. The two T20Is between India and Ireland would be played on 25th June and 27th June.
After the two T20Is against Ireland, India will take on England in 3 matches T20I series from 3rd July. Team India are currently 3rd in the ICC T20 rankings and would be hoping to show their class in T20I series.
Dinesh Karthik would be back up wicketkeeper for the T20I series along with Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav and Washington Sundar are the spinners included. While Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Siddarth Kaul and Umesh Yadav would be doing the pace bowling department.
Hardik Pandya would be doing the all-rounders job. It is going to be an exciting series between these two top teams in the world.
Following the T20I series against England completing on 8th July, the Indian Cricket team will face England in 3 match ODI series starting from 12th July.
The ODI team would be captained by Virat Kohli. KL Rahul, Ambati Rayadu, Washington Sundar, Siddarth Kaul, Umesh Yadav have been bought into the ODI squad. While Rahane, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Mohammed Shami, Shardul Thakur and Axar Patel will be not a part of the Indian ODI team.
Both KL Rahul and Rayadu have been doing pretty well for their franchises in IPL 2018, has been given a chance to prove their mettle. It will be a great series between the new number 1 ranked ODI team England taking on India.
T20I squad against Ireland and England: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (C), KL Rahul, Suresh Raina, Manish Pandey, MS Dhoni (WK), Dinesh Karthik (WK), Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Siddarth Kaul, Umesh Yadav.
ODI squad against England: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (C), KL Rahul, Sheryas Iyer, Ambati Rayadu, MS Dhoni (WK), Dinesh Karthik (WK), Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Siddarth Kaul, Umesh Yadav, Umesh Yadav.
The teams for India A tour of England for four-day matches and tri-series in England announced
The India A team will play few four-day matches which will be followed tri-series including England A and West Indies A in.
For four day matches, Karun Nair would be leading the team. Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, Navdeep Saini, Rajneesh Gurbani have been included in India A squad. The BCCI decided to send India A to get used to England conditions.
India A Squad for three-match ODI series against England: Karun Nair (C), R Samarth, Mayank Agarwal, AR Easwaran, Prithvi Shaw, H Vihari, Ankit Bawne, Vijay Shankar, KS Bharat (WK), Jayant Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Ankit Rajpoot, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Rajneesh Gurbani.
After that India A will take part in the tri-series including England A and West Indies A. Here we look at the squad. The young Shaw, Shubman Gill, has got a chance to with good impressive performances in IPL 2018. K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Chahar also made it into India A squad.
India A Squad for One-Day Tri-series in the England: Sheryas Iyer (C), Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Shubman Gill, H Vihari, Sanju Samson (WK), Deepak Hooda, Pant (WK), Vijay Shankar, K Gowtham, Axar Patel, Krunal Pandya, Prasidh Krishna, Deepak Chahar, Khaleel Ahmed, Shardul Thakur.