India Announce Their T20I Squad Against West Indies, Kuldeep Yadav Back

Team India, who are in red-hot form in recent times will go up against West Indies soon after the historic day-night Test against Bangladesh at Eden Gardens is done and dusted. The Men in Blues will play three Twenty20 Internationals starting from December 6 in Mumbai followed by the same number of the One Day Internationals.

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Virat Kohli & Co have adopted an experimental approach in the limited-overs format ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia. The management is keen to try out every combination before zeroing on their squad for the premier competition which will start from October 18. India, who won the inaugural tournament in 2007 will be eyeing to lift the trophy after 12 long years.

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India continue to experiment

As a result, they have carried on with their experimenting approach against West Indies. There were speculations that BCCI might rest Rohit Sharma, who has been in devastating form with the bat. Rohit, who led India in the Bangladesh series in the absence of Virat Kohli, have played continuous cricket in 2019. But the selectors decided otherwise to keep him in the squad for the West Indies 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

On the other hand, Virat Kohli has slotted back to take the leadership role. He will bat at three with the management relying on their incumbent pair – Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan. The India skipper and Shreyas Iyer will continue to shoulder the responsibilities in the middle-order followed by some hard-hitters including all-rounder Shivam Dube, who will be keen to showcase his skills with the bat.

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Deepak Chahar, who hogged the limelight for his hat-trick against Bangladesh will continue to lead the pace unit. The fast bowlers from Rajasthan will have to keep up the excellent work to seal his place in the playing XI even when Jasprit Bumrah returns to the side.

The T20I squad also witnessed the return of Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar after a long time. Kuldeep, who has been struggling with his form has returned to the squad while Kumar makes a return from after a long injury lay-off.

While there lie dark clouds over the future of the first T20I between India and West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on December 6, Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad will host the second and third match of the series on December 8 and 11 before moving onto the ODIs.

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

— BCCI (@BCCI) November 21, 2019

*Update:

Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of the series due to a knee injury. He has been replaced by Sanju Samson in the squad.

Here is India’s squad for the three-match T20I series

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Sanju Samson, Rishabh Pant, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Deepak Chahar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami