IND vs WI: Big Changes in T20 series, 6 players out from team

IND vs WI: Indian Cricket Team won the test as well as the ODI series against West Indies. The 2 matches Test series was won by a lead of 1-0 and 3 matches One-Day series won by a lead of 2-1. Now it’s time for the 5 matches T20 series. IND vs WI: Big Changes in T20 series, 6 players out from team.

The first T20 match between the two teams will be played on Thursday, August 3. The first T20 match will be played at the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba, Trinidad, while the second and third matches of the series will be played at the Providence Stadium in Guyana.

Also for the final two matches, both teams will travel to Florida. The Central Broward Regional Park Stadium turf ground in Laderhill will host the last two battles of the two teams. The West Indies team, which is known as a weak team in Tests and ODIs, is one of the strongest teams in the T20 format.

The West Indies board has also announced a 15-member squad for the series. Team India has also announced the squad for this series and has a bunch of young players in the team. Many players who played in Test and ODI team are not selected for T20 series including captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Thus Team India will play under the leadership of Hardik Pandya.

Six players who were part of the ODI squad will now return to India, while five players will join the T20 squad. Two of them have been selected for the first T20 squad in their career and will join the rest of the squad in Trinidad. Young opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal, who shone in the Test series against West Indies, has been selected in the T20 squad for the first time.

There are chances that he will get a chance in the T20 team. Apart from him, Tilak Verma has also been included in the T20 team for the first time. Ravi Bishnoi, who played in the 2020 U19 World Cup with these two, is back in the T20 team after a long time. Arshdeep Singh and Avesh Khan have also joined the T20 team. Skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, who have been out of the Indian T20 team for a few months, have not been selected in the Indian T20 team again.

Apart from them, star all-rounders Ravindra Jadeja and Shardul Thakur, top-order batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad and pacer Jaydev Unadkat, who played in all three ODIs against West Indies, are also not part of the T20 squad. Gaikwad and Unadkat were part of the Test and ODI squads. But he did not get much chance in both the series.

India probable playing XI for T20 series against West Indies: Ishan Kishan, Shubman Gill, Yashavi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshadeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Umran Malik

India squad for T20 series: Ishan Kishan, Shubman Gill, Yassavi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Umran Malik, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Yuzvendra Chahal, Tilak Verma.

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