Team India Squad: BCCI has announced Team India for the 3-match ODI series against South Africa. Shubman Gill is out. KL Rahul has been made the captain. Rituraj Gaikwad has returned.
Team India Squad Announced: The Board of Control for Cricket in India has announced the squad of Team India for the ODI series against South Africa. In the absence of Shubman Gill, the responsibility of captaincy has been handed over to KL Rahul. At the same time, Rishabh Pant, who is captaining in the second test, has been selected as wicketkeeper/batsman. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have become part of the team. Apart from this, Rituraj Gaikwad has returned to the Indian team. Jasprit Bumrah has been rested in this series.
Iyer and Gill out due to injury
A 3-match ODI series is to be played against South Africa, but the names of Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill are not in the squad. Both the players are currently suffering from injury. Shreyas got injured while taking a catch during the series in Australia, after which he had to go to ICU. He has not returned yet. At the same time, Gill suffered a neck injury in the Kolkata Test, after which he went out. Now he has been kept out of the ODI series also.
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Rituraj Gaikwad got the fruits
The most surprising name in this squad is that of Rituraj Gaikwad, who had not come to Team India for a long time. His recent form has been amazing. He is continuously scoring runs in domestic cricket, the result of which has been given to him by BCCI. Even before the selection, there were many talks about Rituraj, which has now become clear. Not only this, while playing for India A against South Africa A, he scored 210 runs in 3 innings at an average of 105.00. Also played a century inning of 117 runs in the first ODI match. At the same time, he has played 6 ODIs for India and scored 115 runs during this period. His highest individual score is 71 runs.
Team India selected for ODI series
Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna.
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