MUMBAI: India’s injured opening batsman Rohit Sharma and fast bowler Ishant Sharma have not been named for the upcoming Australia tour after the country’s cricket board (BCCI) announced the Test and limited overs squads on Monday.

India are scheduled to play four Test matches for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy along with three One-day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 Internationals, with the itinerary yet to be finalised.

While Ishant is nursing an abdominal muscle tear, Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit injured his hamstring during the ongoing Indian Premier League.

Squads:

Test: Virat Kohli (captain), Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, K.L. Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammad Siraj.

T20: Kohli (captain), Rahul (vice-captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Agarwal, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Sanju Samson, Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Bumrah, Shami, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Varun Chakravarthy.

ODI: Kohli (captain), Rahul (vice-captain), Dhawan, Gill, Iyer, Pandey, Pandya, Agarwal, Jadeja, Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bumrah, Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur.

Published in Dawn, October 27th, 2020