Rahane named captain for Test vs Afghanistan, Karun Nair replaces Kohli
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the Indian squad which will take on Afghanistan for the one-off Test starting June 14 in Bengaluru.
The notable inclusion in the squad is that of Karun Nair, who has made his way into the team in place of captain Virat Kohli. Nair has been in decent form in the ongoing Indian Premier League while playing for Kings XI Punjab.
The selectors also announced the squads for the limited-overs leg of the UK tour along with the India ‘A’ tour of England.
Squad for Afghanistan Test: Ajinkya Rahane (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Karun Nair, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Hardik Pandya, Ishant Sharma, Shardul Thakur
#TeamIndia for two-match T20I series against Ireland announced
Virat (Capt), Shikhar, Rohit, KL Rahul, Raina, Manish, MS Dhoni(wk), Dinesh Karthik, Chahal, Kuldeep, Sundar, Bhuvneshwar, Bumrah, Hardik, Kaul, Umesh #IREvIND
— BCCI (@BCCI) May 8, 2018
#TeamIndia for three-match T20I series against England announced
Virat (Capt), Shikhar, Rohit, KL Rahul, Raina, Manish, MS Dhoni(wk), Dinesh Karthik, Chahal, Kuldeep, Sundar, Bhuvneshwar, Bumrah, Hardik, Kaul, Umesh #ENGvIND
— BCCI (@BCCI) May 8, 2018
#TeamIndia for three-match ODI series against England announced
Virat (Capt), Shikhar, Rohit, KL Rahul, Shreyas, Rayudu, MS Dhoni(wk), Dinesh Karthik, Chahal, Kuldeep, Sundar, Bhuvneshwar, Bumrah, Hardik, Kaul, Umesh #ENGvIND
— BCCI (@BCCI) May 8, 2018
India ‘A’ team for One-Day Tri-series in the U.K. announced
Shreyas (Capt), Prithvi, Mayank Agarwal, Shubhman Gill, H. Vihari, Sanju Samson, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wk), Vijay Shankar, K. Gowtham, Axar, Krunal, Prasidh Krishna, Deepak Chahar, Khaleel Ahmed, Shardul
— BCCI (@BCCI) May 8, 2018
India ‘A’ team for four-day matches in the U.K. announced
Karun (Capt), R. Samarth, Mayank Agarwal, AR Easwaran, Prithvi, H.Vihari, Ankit Bawne, Vijay Shankar, KS Bharat (wk), Jayant Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Ankit Rajpoot, Md Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Rajneesh Gurbani
— BCCI (@BCCI) May 8, 2018