Team India in training session
Highlight
- Hardik Pandya has been named the captain of the Indian team for the Ireland series.
- VVS Laxman to be India’s head coach for Ireland series
- India will play 1 Test, 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is on their UK tour
After India’s home series with South Africa comes to an end, the men in blue will begin a new challenge which is to be played on foreign soil. The preparations for the T20I World Cup are underway and the Indian team will now travel to England to play one Test match, three ODIs and three T20Is. It is a huge series and will see all-star Indian players return to national duties. KL Rahul He has also been ruled out of the tour due to a back injury and the starting positions could see some young players struggling to find a place in the star-studded Indian lineup.
Half the Indian team is already gone with the choice of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah And has started practicing for the one-sided Test match starting from July 1, 2022. Half of the Indian team is scheduled to leave for England on June 19, 2022. It will be interesting to see how the Indian contingent is up to this daunting challenge and has England in the form of their lives.
On the red-ball front, England have beaten New Zealand in successive Test matches and have won the series 2-0 so far. As far as the white-ball series is concerned, the England team is playing a 3-match ODI series against the Netherlands. In the first ODI, Enjgland had scored around 500 runs joss butler And Liam Livingstone demonstrated the brute force of striking power. Before the start of the England series, India will also play two T20Is against Ireland from June 26, 2022.
Indian squad for Ireland T20 series: Hardik Pandya (C), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (VC), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Sanju Samson, Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Venkatesh Iyer, Axar Patel, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Umran Malik, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra ChahaliRavi Bishnoi.
India squad for fifth Test vs England rescheduled: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar PujaraVirat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra JadejaRavichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed ShamiJasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Umesh YadavFamous Krishna, Srikar India (wicketkeeper)
India squad for ODIs and T20I vs England: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant (wk), KS India (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Famous Krishna.