Virat Kohli rested, Rohit Sharma to lead India against Sri Lanka in ODIs

NAGPUR: India captain Virat Kohli used to be given a much-needed leisure from the approaching ODI collection against Sri Lanka while spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja persisted to be disregarded within the 50-over format.

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While Kohli will play within the 3rd Test in New Delhi starting December 2, his restricted overs deputy Rohit Sharma can be main the squad in three-match ODI collection starting December 10.

Ashwin and Jadeja's persisted exclusion is a transparent indication that they aren't within the immediate scheme of items on this format.

Shreyas Iyer, who made his T20 global debut against New Zealand ultimate month, has earned his maiden call-up within the ODI facet and is predicted to bat in Kohli's position at quantity 3.

The squad additionally contains uncapped Punjab right-arm medium pacer Siddharth Kaul, who used to be incidentally a member of the 2008 U-19 World Cup successful team, which used to be led by means of Kohli.

Kaul has played for India A and has 175 wickets from 50 first class video games and 98 scalps from 52 List A (domestic 50- overs) video games. The medium pacer has additionally been a part of IPL franchises Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders.

The squad for the T20 Internationals against the islanders and the Test excursion of South Africa has been get rid of until the 3rd and final event within the nationwide capital.

While the squad for the 3rd Test remained unchanged, ODI specialists like former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, megastar all-rounder Hardik Pandya, batsman Kedar Jadhav together with speedsters Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah returned to the 50-over format.

On expected strains, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal additionally got here again within the squad.

It used to be learnt that since Kohli can be enjoying the 3rd Test in Delhi, he requested the selectors to select the squad for the South Africa Tests all the way through that game. Chief selector MSK Prasad and his panel agreed to Kohli's request.

Off-spinner Ashwin and left-arm spinner Jadeja have now been dropped for the fourth consecutive restricted overs collection ranging from the away video games against Sri Lanka.

While Prasad and Co had indicated that they had been being rested in Sri Lanka, however they had been additionally now not picked for the next collection against Australia, New Zealand and now the house leg of the Sri Lanka ODIs.

This used to be after Ashwin (eight/120) and Jadeja (5/84) grabbed 13 of the 20 wickets on an unresponsive Nagpur track.

"I would not say it is cast in stone but it could well be that Indian cricket is finally moving towards the direction of having separate teams for red and white ball cricket," former India wicketkeeper and cricket analyst Deep Dasgupta said.

He added, "Possibly, the two wrist spinners (Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav) are more attacking and wicket-taking options. In case they need a restrictive option, they have Axar Patel, who can bowl those tight lines."

It used to be learnt that both Ashwin and Jadeja have been intimated by means of the selectors about their intentions going into the 2019 World Cup.

Before being dropped from the ODIs, wickets had dried up for both the Test specialists. In his ultimate 10 ODIs, Jadeja were given best seven wickets while Ashwin had best 10 from his ultimate 10 video games. Their economy rates have been lovely decent with 4.90 for Jadeja and 4.91 for Ashwin.

Chahal has an economy charge of four.56 in his 14-match ODI occupation and has were given 21 wickets. Similarly Kuldeep, with an economy charge of four.94, has 19 wickets from 12 ODIs, together with a hat-trick against Australia.


The figures point out that while the economy rates are lovely an identical, Kuldeep and Chahal are now wicket-taking options for an attacking captain like Kohli.


Unless the 2 younger spinners do terribly in South Africa and therefore in England, the doorways in restricted overs format appears to be like all however shut for Jadeja and Ashwin.


India squad for the 3rd Test: Virat Kohli (Captain), M Vijay, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (Vice-Captain), Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Vijay Shankar


India squad for the ODI collection: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni (WK), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul
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