Mumbai: India has to tour the West Indies next month, for which the BCCI has announced the Test and ODI squads. The T20 team has not been announced. A major change has been made in the Indian team for the Test series starting on 12 July.
Middle-order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara has been bid farewell. Ruturaj Gaikwad and Yashasvi Jaiswal got a chance for the first time. KS Bharat’s place remains intact. Sanju Samson, Umran Malik have returned to the ODI squad.
Test squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ajinkya Rahane (vc), KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Akshar Patel , Mo. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Navdeep Saini.
ODI squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Sanju Samson (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya (vc), Shardul Thakur, R Jadeja, Akshar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal , Kuldeep Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Mohammad Siraj, Umran Malik, Mukesh Kumar.
Full schedule: Dominica’s Windsor Park will play the first Test match from 12 to 16 July. The second Test match will be the 100th match between the two countries, which will be held at Queen’s Park Oval from 20 July. Both these Test matches will be part of the 2023-2025 World Test Championship cycle. After the Test match, it will be the turn of the ODI series, which starts on 27 July. India will continue their preparations for the ODI World Cup to be held at home in October-November this year with a three-match ODI series.
The first and second ODIs will be played on July 27 and 29 at the Kensington Oval Ground in Barbados. The third ODI will take place on August 1 at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy Stadium in Trinidad. After this, the last two matches of the T20 series will be played in America.
