BCCI announced the squad for India's three-match T20I series against England starting from July 7, and it will be Rohit Sharma who will lead India.
In the lead-up to India's rescheduled fifth Test match against England, Rohit Sharma had contracted Covid-19 and was subsequently ruled out of the Edgbaston Test. There was a lot of speculation, that Hardik Pandya would thus, lead India in the first T20I of the three-match series against England, which kicks off on July 7.
However, it will be Rohit, and not Hardik, who will lead the Men in Blue, in the first T20I against the Three Lions. The BCCI on Thursday announced India's squad for the three-match T20I series, with a fit-again Rohit expected to lead the side against newly crowned English skipper Jos Buttler.
As reported before, senior players such as Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant and Jasprit Bumrah are some of the names who will be rested for the first T20I, and the side which defeated Ireland in the recently concluded T20I series will face England in the first match.
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The likes of Kohli, Pant, Bumrah and others will return for the subsequent two T20I matches.
India's squad for first T20I vs England:
Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan, Ruturaj Gaekwad, Sanju Samson, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rahul Tripathi, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Hardik Pandya, Venkatesh Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Umran Malik
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India's squad for second and third T20I vs England:
Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Umran Malik
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