A day after Indian cricket group’s Asia Cup triumph, the squad for the Australia ODI sequence was introduced on Monday. There have been a number of surprises within the squad for the three-ODI sequence. The largest one being the return of Ravichandran Ashwin, who final performed an ODI in January, 2022. One other shock was that the group administration rested the star trio – Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya – for a sequence that’s being seen as the ultimate gown rehearsal earlier than the World Cup.
The trio, together with Kuldeep Yadav, has been for the primary two ODIs, whereas they’ll make a comeback within the third ODI. BCCI chief selector Ajit Agarkar, who introduced the squad, was requested by a journalist concerning the cause behind resting the celebrities forward of ‘Bharat Darshan’ on the World Cup. The reference of ‘Bharat Darshan’ was given as a result of India would be the most-travelled group within the ODI Cricket World Cup as it will likely be taking part in all it group stage matches in numerous cities.
Agarkar gave a deft reply to the question. “Rohit (Sharma) and Virat (Kohli) have been round without end and clearly Hardik is a vital participant for us, we wish to handle him,” he mentioned.
“Kuldeep is in nice kind. It additionally offers us an opportunity to take a look at among the different guys. That is the factor. Fortunately, we received a good quantity of cricket within the Asia Cup.
“If not we would have checked out it another approach. At some stage or the opposite, greater than bodily, guys generally want a psychological break which isn’t such a nasty factor, main up the match (Cricket World Cup).
“However comes the third recreation, everybody can be out there to play. We are going to play our World Cup squad. It does give us an opportunity to play another guys who’ve been sitting exterior and it has been a powerful squad,” mentioned BCCI Chief selector Ajit Agarkar.
Squad for the primary two ODIs: KL Rahul (captain), Ravindra Jadeja (vice-captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Shardul Thakur, Washington Sundar, R Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Prasidh Krishna.
Squad for third ODI: Rohit Sharma (captain), Hardik Pandya, (vice-captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel (topic to health), Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, R Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Mohammed Siraj.
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