A very strong Indian Contingent is due to leave for down under later this month for playing tests, ODI and T20 series. All three formats is expected to witnessed mouth-watering contests between evenly matched contingents. India with a much different all-round bowling unit apart from strong as usual battery of quality batsmen is expected to match host Australia in all formats.
Australia with David Warner and Steve Smith back in action and couple of highly talented youngsters in the fringe will be a visit different team than that which India encountered during the last visit. Several Australians featured in the just concluded IPL 2020 at UAE and have good measure of the strength and weakness of their counterparts. But wickets and conditions will be vastly different. However, given the performances in the recent past there will be very little to choose.
Here is the Indian squad in three formats.
Team India T20I squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul (vice-captain and wicket-keeper), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, T Natarajan.
Team India ODI squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul (vice-captain & wicket-keeper), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur, Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper).
Team India Test squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper), Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, R. Ashwin, Mohd. Siraj.
Australia did not announce the test squad yet. But announced a very strong white ball squad for playing ODI and T20 series. The ODIs will be played at SCG on 27 & 29th November and at Manuka Oval, Canberra on 2 December. Three T20 internationals will be played at Manuka Oval, Canberra on 4 December and at SCG on 6th and 8th December 2020. These will be followed by 4 tests Border Gavaskar test series.
Australian Squad For White Ball Series:
Aaron Flinch (Captain), Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar, Alex Carey, Patrick Cummins (Vice Captain) , Cameron Green, Josh Hazzlewood, Moises Henriques, Marcus Labuschagne, Glen Maxwell. Daniel Sams, Kane Ricahrdson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Mathhew Wade, David Warner and Adam Zampa.
Australia ranks number one in test and T20 and number four in ODI. India ranks number three in test, number two in ODI and number three in T20 international. The entire cricket world will be watching with great intent the intriguing contest. Hope we find opportunity of watching Boxing day test at MCG.
BDST: 1632 HRS, NOV 11, 2020
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