Team India has been announced for the home series of 3 T20 and 3 ODIs with Sri Lanka starting from 3 January. Hardik Pandya has been given the captaincy of the T20. And Rohit Sharma will captain the ODIs.
Rohit suffered a thumb injury in the second match of the three ODI series on the Bangladesh tour. Due to this, he was also ruled out of one ODI and two-Test series. He will return from the 3 ODI series against Sri Lanka starting on 10 January.
india’s T20 squad against Sri Lanka
Hardik Pandya (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Rituraj Gaikwad, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (VC), Deepak Hooda, Rahul Tripathi, Sanju Samson, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Akshar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Harshal Patel, Umran Malik, Shivam Mavi, and Mukesh Kumar.
Captain Rohit Sharma is back on the team
Rohit has started training. Rohit posted the training on social media. After this post of his, his fans are feeling relieved. This photo of him has also been liked by Suryakumar Yadav and KL Rahul, who was made the vice-captain of Team India for the T20 series.
At the same time, a user wrote on this post, 2023 is definitely going to be yours. Best wishes to you for the coming year. At the same time, another user wrote that who would have thought there would be a Hitman show in 2023.
Shikhar Dhawan, who was dropped from the ODI series against Sri Lanka, has also posted an emotional post while training on social media. He has written in his post, ‘It is not a matter of victory or defeat.
It is of the heart. Do the work and leave the rest to God. Dhawan, who was part of the team against Bangladesh, could not do wonders with the bat. He could only score 7 runs in the first ODI, 8 in the second, and 3 in the third ODI.
Earlier, he played a brilliant inning of 72 runs in the first ODI against New Zealand. Dhawan is already out of T20 and the Test team. After not being selected in this series, questions are also being raised about his international career.
Talking about Dhawan’s performance this year, he is the second top scorer for Team India in ODIs. He has scored 688 runs in matches in the year 2022.
ODI squad against Sri Lanka:
Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (Wicketkeeper), Ishaan Kishan (Wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya (Vice-Captain), Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Akshar Patel, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umran Malik and Arshdeep Singh.