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India vs NZ T20Is: IPL 2021 performers Ruturaj Gaikwad, Deepak Chahar, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan and Harshal Patel rewarded

Spectacular performers in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 – Ruturaj Gaikwad, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshal Patel and Avesh Khan – on Tuesday (November 9) had been named in a refreshed 16-man India squad that will bewitch on Contemporary Zealand in a 3-match T20I series, starting November 17, with smartly-known person opener Rohit Sharma as the captain.

With Virat Kohli relinquishing the T20I captaincy, the Chetan Sharma-led National Change Committee appointed Rohit as the captain of the squad while KL Rahul is the designated vice-captain. This would possibly perchance presumably also be the precious assignment for the contemporary head coach Rahul Dravid, who takes over the reins from Ravi Shastri.

Many multi-format regulars together with Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, and Ravindra Jadeja were given a wreck after the T20 World Cup, which followed the completion of the Indian Premier League 2021. Hardik Pandya, Shardul Thakur, Varun Chakravarthy, and Rahul Chahar, who had been phase of the 15-member T20 World Cup squad, haven’t been picked.

.@ImRo45 all set to lead #TeamIndia‘s T20I squad in opposition to Contemporary Zealand.

How infected are you for the house series? #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/wGCe0gBbL2

— BCCI (@BCCI) November 9, 2021

Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Chahar, and Axar Patel, who had been all phase of the travelling reserves on the T20 World Cup, were included in this squad, which additionally sees the return of Yuzvendra Chahal and Mohammed Siraj.

Amongst those picked for their extraordinary performances in IPL 2021 is Orange Cap winner Gaikwad, who played two T20Is for India on the tour of Sri Lanka earlier this year. Meanwhile, Avesh, Venkatesh and Harshal, had been phase of the India bubble on the World Cup and helped befriend the group in its preparations.

India will glance to starting up building in direction of the next T20 World Cup in Australia after a disappointing performance within the UAE which saw them losing their opening two games to Pakistan and Contemporary Zealand. Regardless of successful their last three games handsomely, India failed to qualify for the semi-finals.

The three T20Is will doubtless be played in Jaipur (November 17), Ranchi (Nov 19), and Kolkata (Nov 21). The squad for the 2 subsequent Tests, at Kanpur (Nov 25-29) and Mumbai (December 3-7), will doubtless be presented later.

The preference committee additionally picked the India ‘A’ squad for the South Africa tour with J&Good sufficient swiftly bowler Umran Malik and Karnataka opener Devdutt Padikkal finding a local. The 14-member group, led by Priyank Panchal, is scheduled to play three four-day games in Bloemfontein starting on November 23.

India’s T20I squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (Vice-Captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Avesh Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Harshal Patel, Mohd. Siraj

India ‘A’ squad for South Africa tour: Priyank Panchal (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Devdutt Padikkal, Sarfaraz Khan, Baba Aparajith, Upendra Yadav (wicket-keeper), Good sufficient Gowtham, Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Umran Malik, Ishan Porel, Arzan Nagwaswalla

(with IANS inputs)

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