18 players have earned a place in the Indian team.Image Credit Source: PTI
Team India has been announced for the Test series against Australia. BCCI announced the India team for this tour on Friday, October 25. Currently, the Indian team is busy in the Test series against New Zealand where their condition is poor. In the midst of all this, the board has selected 18 players for the tour of Australia next month. Team India has to play 5 test matches in this tour. Some special things have been seen in this team, in which the selection of KL Rahul despite his poor form and resting Kuldeep Yadav is important. Let us tell you some special things related to Team India selection at some points.
Important selection points for the Australian tour.
- The selection committee has not selected Mohammed Shami for the entire tour. That means the selection committee is not satisfied with his fitness and hence has not talked about calling him up even in the middle of the series anywhere in their announcement.
- Middle-order batsman KL Rahul, who was struggling due to poor form, managed to retain his place. Rahul was dropped from the Pune Test playing eleven after his failure in the Bengaluru Test, but the selection committee still has confidence in him.
- Meanwhile, spinner Kuldeep Yadav, who is part of India’s team in the Test series against New Zealand, will not participate in the tour of Australia. The board has said that he is suffering from groin pain and will work to cure it at the BCCI’s new Center of Excellence.
- Meanwhile, all-rounder Akshar Patel, who was in the Test team against New Zealand, has been dropped from the tour. Axar did not get a chance even in the series against New Zealand and was dropped due to lack of need for spinners in Australia.
- However, the place of Washington Sundar, who has so far taken 7 wickets in the first innings and 4 wickets in the second innings for Team India in the Pune Test, remains intact. Sundar was also part of the team on the last tour of Australia and played an important role in winning the Brisbane Test on debut there.
- The selection committee has given a chance to experienced Bengal batsman Abhimanyu Easwaran as a backup opener after almost 3 years. Easwaran has scored consecutive runs in the last few domestic seasons. Apart from this, he has also scored centuries in the Duleep Trophy, Iranian Cup and Ranji Trophy recently.
- At the same time, two new players were enrolled in the test team for the first time. After the IPL, 22-year-old young all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy from Andhra Pradesh was selected and performed brilliantly in the T20 series against Bangladesh. At the same time, Delhi fast bowler Harshit Rana also has a chance considering his fast pace.
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Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Sarfaraz Khan, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (goalkeeper), Dhruv Jurel (goalkeeper), 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
