BCCI has announced the Twenty20 and ODI squads for limited over series against Australia in January 2016. Yuvraj, Jadeja, Nehra and Muhammad Shami returns to twenty20 squad while Raina has been dropped from ODI squad. Below is the confirm list of players heading to Australia.
Indian Squad Announced: The Indian Squad for Australian has been announced today Saturday, 19th December. There were quite a few surprises with Yuvraj, Jadeja, Nehra and Muhammad Shami returns while Raina keeps his place in T20 squad and discarded from ODI squad..
The odi squad inlcude Shikhar, Rohit, Virat, Rahane, Manish, Dhoni (C), Ashwin, Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Axar Patel, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh, Rishi Dhawan, Brainder Sran
NO# | T20 SQUAD | ODI SQUAD | |
1 | MS Dhoni (Captain) | MS Dhoni (Captain) (wk) | |
2 | Virat Kohli (VC) | Virat Kohli | |
3 | Shikhar Dhawan | Rohit Sharma | |
4 | Yuvraj Singh | Shikhar Dhawan | |
5 | Rohit Sharma | Ajinka Rehane | |
6 | Ajinka Rehane | Manish Pandey | |
7 | Ravindra Jadeja | Ravindra Jadeja | |
8 | Harbhajan Singh | Ravichander Ashwin | |
9 | Suresh Raina | Mohammad Shami | |
10 | Ravichander Ashwin | Axer Patel | |
11 | Ashish Nehra | Ishant Sharma | |
12 | Muhammad Shami | Umesh Yadav | |
13 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Gurkeerat Singh | |
14 | Umesh Yadaf | Rishi Dhawan | |
15 | Hardik Pandya | Brainder Sran |
Australian Squad for India ODI/T20 Series: India will tour Australia where they will be playing 5 one day and 3 twenty20 matches against Australia in January 2015. India are coming into this series on the back of winning the 4 match test series against South Africa at home but they lost the ODI series 3-2 and and also lost 2-0 in the 3 match t20 series. With Twenty20 world cup coming up this tour holds massive important for both teams to prepare for the big event in march 2016.
Australian Squad: Australian cricket board will announce the squad in a couple of weeks time for the Indian ODI and Twenty20 series. We will update the page with official squad once revealed.