Mumbai, Oct 24 : Rohit Sharma was named captain of the Indian T20I side for the Bangladesh series as regular captain Virat Kohli was rested from the three-match affair starting from November 3.
The Indian selection committee led by MSK Prasad met Indian captain Virat Kohli at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai on Thursday. There were no changes in the Test squad.
Newly elected BCCI president Sourav Ganguly too met Virat Kohli for the first time after being elected as 39th president of the board.
Kohli was given a break keeping his workload in mind. Captaining in all three formats and being the premier batsman of the side, Kohli is an ideal candidate for burnout.
He was expected to skip the T20 matches in West Indies after the World Cup, but he played. This time he has paid to heed the advice of the support staff monitoring the workload of the players.
Rohit Sharma, fresh from his tremendous showing in the Test series against South Africa, is was appointed as captain in the T20Is.
All-rounder Hardik Pandya, who was part of India’s T20I squad against South Africa, which ended in 1-1, was not included for the Bangladesh series as he is yet to recover from a lower back surgery. Mumbai all-rounder Shivam Dube earned his maiden call-up in the side.
Wicket-keeper batsman Sanju Samson too earned a comeback in the T20 side after 4 years.
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
India is set to play three T20Is – In New Delhi (November 3), in Rajkot (November 7), and in Nagpur (November 10) and two Test matches – in Indore (November 14-18) and in Kolkata (November 22-26) against Bangladesh.
