India Announce Their Squad For The ODI Series Against West Indies

With the ICC T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia looming large, Team India have played very limited One-Day Internationals. Post the ICC World Cup, they have played only three ODIs against West Indies and won the series 2-0 after a washout in the first match. Virat Kohli & Co will once against fight out with the Caribbeans in the three-match series following the T20Is starting December 6.

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The Men in Blues will continue to experiment with the squad and their rotational policy will be on the table. The squad witnessed the return of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who has been out of the scheme of things since the ICC World Cup. Deepak Chahar and Mohammed Shami got rewards for the exceptional performances and will partner Bhuvneshwar in the ODI series.

The All India Senior Selection Committee met in Kolkata today to pick the squads for the upcoming tour against West Indies – An update on the teams in a bit ?? #TeamIndia #INDvWI pic.twitter.com/3Hw7aM2zWj

— BCCI (@BCCI) November 21, 2019

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The squad also witnessed the return of Kedar Jadhav while Shivam Dube earned his debut ODI call-up as Hardik Pandya continues to nurse his injury. India’s reliable spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal will pair up once again to lead the spin department with Ravindra Jadeja offering left-arm spin options.

India will have a tough battle at hand against a strong West Indies side led by Kieron Pollard. The giant all-rounder recently replaced Jason Holder and Carlos Brathwaite as the ODI and T20I skipper of the Caribbeans. The visitors had a good series against Afghanistan in Lucknow and will be keen to put the World Cup semifinalists under pressure.

ALERT?: #TeamIndia for the upcoming @Paytm series against West Indies announced. #INDvWI pic.twitter.com/7RJLc4MDB1

— BCCI (@BCCI) November 21, 2019

Meanwhile, Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium will host the first match of the series on December 15 while the other two will take place in Visakhapatnam and Cuttack on December 18 and 22 respectively.

Here is India’s squad for the three-match ODI series

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Rishabh Pant, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami.

As Shikhar Dhawan could not recover from his knee injury that he suffered in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, in-form Mayank Agarwal has replaced the southpaw batsman in the squad. In another change to the squad, Shardul Thakur has replaced injured Bhuvneshwar Kumar.