Border-Gavaskar Trophy: BCCI has announced the team for the Border Gavaskar Trophy series to be held later this year and the T20 series against South Africa. There are many names in this team who have surprised everyone. BCCI has also announced the team captain and vice-captain for these series.
Rohit Sharma is the captain in Border Gavaskar Trophy
Let us tell you that in the Border Gavaskar series, the captain of the team is Rohit Sharma while Jasprit Bumrah will be his deputy. In the absence of Rohit, Bumrah will take command of the team. Actually, there were reports in the media that Rohit Sharma may miss the first two test matches due to family reasons and if this happens, then Jasprit Bumrah can captain in place of Rohit Sharma.
Suryakumar Yadav will captain
At the same time, BCCI has also announced the team for the South Africa tour. Suryakumar Yadav will still captain the team for this series. Whereas no one has been made the vice captain of the team for this series. Let us tell you that the vice-captain of the T20 team is Shubhman Gill but Border Gavaskar will be present in Australia for the series, hence BCCI has not announced anyone as the vice-captain.
Sanju Samson is also part of the team
Sanju Samson is also a part of this team. Actually, if media reports are to be believed, Sanju could have missed this series due to mucus cyst but this has not happened at all and he will be seen playing in this series.
Team India for Border Gavaskar Trophy –
Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wk), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Washington Sundar
Traveling Reserve – Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khalil Ahmed
Team India for South Africa tour –
Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vishak, Avesh Khan ,Yash Dayal.
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