The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced India’s T20I squad for the upcoming T20I series against Bangladesh. As expected, Sanju Samson and Shivam Dube have earned call-ups with this being the comeback for the former after a four-year-long wait
Rishabh Pant has also been picked amidst all the criticism and it will be interesting to see if both him and Samson will get a chance in the playing XI during the series
The regular skipper Virat Kohli has been rested as Rohit Sharma will take charge as the captain for this series
Both Samson and Dube sizzled in the Vijay Hazare Trophy playing timely knocks for their respective teams and were rewarded for the same
The three-match T20I series will commence on November 3 in Delhi with the other two matches to be played in Rajkot and Nagpur on November 7 and 10 respectively
Meanwhile, the squad for the two-match Test series has been unchanged.The two-match Test series will commence on November 14 in Indore with the second Test scheduled to play at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
India T20I squad: Rohit Sharma(Capt), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant(wk), Washington Sundar, Krunal Pandya, Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar, Deepak Chahar, Khaleel Ahmed, Shivam Dube, Shardul Thakur
India Test squad: Virat Kohli (Capt), Rohit Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Saha (wk), R Jadeja, R Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant.
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