A 5-match test series is to be played between India and Australia. The first test match of Border Gavaskar Trophy will be played in Perth from 22nd November. This series is going to be very important for the Indian team. The Indian team will remain in Australia for the next 50 days for this series. Whether Team India will play the final of the World Test Championship or not will also be decided by the Border Gavaskar Trophy, for which Indian players are preparing vigorously. The Indian team has completed training at the WACA ground and the players will go to the Optus Stadium for match drills from Tuesday (November 19). Meanwhile, 8 Indian players are going to return to their country.
These 8 players will return to India from Australia
Let us tell you, before the Indian senior cricket team, the India A team also went to Australia. India A played a 2-match unofficial test series against Australia A. In this series, the Indian team had to face defeat by 2-0. The players selected in India A have been in Australia for the last 20 days. 15 players went to Australia for the series against Australia A. At the same time, some players of India A are also part of the Border Gavaskar Trophy, in such a situation only 8 players will return to India and the rest of the players will remain in Perth with the senior team.
The 8 players returning to India are Rituraj Gaikwad, Sai Sudarshan, Ricky Bhui, Baba Inderjit, Ishan Kishan, Abhishek Porel, Manav Suthar and Tanush Kotian. Ruturaj Gaikwad was the captain of India A in this series. Apart from these, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Devdutt Padikkal, Mukesh Kumar, Khalil Ahmed, Navdeep Saini, Prasidh Krishna, KL Rahul and Dhruv Jurel will remain in Australia, because all these players have been selected for the Border Gavaskar Trophy. Among these, Devdutt Padikkal is one name who is not a part of the squad, but he can be kept as a backup player.
Team India’s squad for Border Gavaskar Trophy
Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Sarfaraz Khan, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar. , Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna and Harshit Rana.
Reserve: Khalil Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar and Navdeep Saini
