IND vs AUS: Indian team announced for Border-Gavaskar Trophy, three new faces in 18-member squad

By News Update On Oct 26, 2024

sports desk : The Indian team has been announced for the Australia tour. 3 new players have been included in this team. Three players have also been kept in reserve for this tour. India has to play a 5-match test series on Australia tour. Akshar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav have been dropped from the team. With this the Indian T20 team for the South Africa series has been announced.

Nitish Reddy, Harshit Rana and Abhimanyu Easwaran have been included for this series. Abhimanyu Easwaran has been included as cover for Rohit. Whereas KL Rahul has been retained in this team. Rahul was dropped from the playing eleven of the ongoing second Test in Pune. Mohammed Shami is still not fully fit. Due to which he has been kept out of the team.

BCCI has announced the team during the second Test of the three-match Test series being played between India and New Zealand. The New Zealand team has already taken a 1-0 lead in the series. The second match is close to winning. Despite India's poor performance, many players have been given tickets to Australia.

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Squads for India’s tour of South Africa & Border-Gavaskar Trophy announced 🔽#TeamIndia | #SAvIND | #AUSWIN pic.twitter.com/Z4eTXlH3u0
— BCCI (@BCCI) October 25, 2024

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Complete program of Australia tour

The first match of the Test series between India and Australia will be played in Perth on 22 November. After this, the second Test will be played in Adelaide from 6 December. The third match will be played in Brisbane from 14 December. The fourth Boxing Day Test will be played in Melbourne from 26 December. The fifth and last match of this series will be played in Sydney from January 3.

18 member team announced

Indian team: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj. , Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar. Reserve: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed.

Indian team announced for T20 series against South Africa

India's squad for the four T20 Internationals against South Africa: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Vishak Vijaykumar, Avesh Khan, Yash Dayal.

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