AUS vs IND: BCCI announces all three squads for Australia tour
BCCI conducted the selection meeting via video-conference on Monday (26th October) to select the Indian squads for the upcoming Tour of Australia. India will be playing three T20Is, three ODIs and four Test matches against Australia starting from 3rd December with the Test series.
Rohit Sharma is not included in any of the squads owing to his hamstring injury. His inclusion will depend on his fitness. Shubman Gill has earned a maiden call-up to the Test squad as a back-up opener. Mohammad Siraj will also be in line to make his Test debut for India. His selection comes after Ishant Sharma suffered an injury which has ruled him out of the ongoing IPL.
The selectors have dropped Rishabh Pant from both the ODI and T20I squads. His lack of fitness has been floated as a reason. KL Rahul will be donning the wicket-keeping gloves with Sanju Samson being his back-up in T20Is. Varun Chakravarthy, the mystery spinner currently playing for KKR, has earned a maiden national call-up in T20Is for India.
Here are the full squads:
T20I squad:
Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul (vice-captain and wicket-keeper), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Varun Chakravarthy.
ODI squad:
Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul (vice-captain & wicket-keeper), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur
Test squad:
Virat Kohli (Captain), Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper), Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, R. Ashwin, Mohd. Siraj
Four additional bowlers – Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kartik Tyagi, Ishan Porel and T. Natarajan – will travel with the Indian contingent.
