India's Second String Team Flies To Sri Lanka For ODI & T20I Series

Team India led by skipper Shikhar Dhawan and head coach Rahul Dravid boarded the flight for Sri Lanka on Monday.

The BCCI social media handles and cricketers Shikhar Dhawan, Kuldeep Yadav shared several pictures of the team ahead of their departure to the island nation.

The second-string team will land in Colombo today, following which the players will undergo three days of hard isolation.

Following the three-day hard quarantine, Team India will begin training in a controlled manner as per the guidelines prescribed by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC).

All SET! ?

Sri Lanka bound ??✈️#TeamIndia ?? #SLvIND pic.twitter.com/eOMmiuxi28

— BCCI (@BCCI) June 28, 2021

The white-ball tour will see Team India lock horns with Sri Lanka in three One-day Internationals (July 13,16 and 18) followed by as many T20Is on July 21, 25, and 25.

All the matches will be played at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

✈️ Next stop, Sri Lanka! pic.twitter.com/icCyBQqML7

— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) June 28, 2021

The white-ball fixtures will be a good opportunity for players like Prithvi Shaw, Varun Chakravarthy, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devdutt Padikkal, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Sanju Samson, Rahul Chahar, Ishan Kishan to showcase their potential at the highest level and push their cases forward ahead of the upcoming T20 World Cup.

 

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India’s squad for the ODI and T20I series against Sri Lanka:

Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Vice-captain), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana, Ishan Kishan (Wicket-keeper), Sanju Samson (Wicket-keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar, K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy,  Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya