Mumbai BCCI has announced the Indian team for the T20 match series against Australia, who recently became the world champion of cricket, to be held from November 23. Batsman Suryakumar Yadav has been made the captain of the Indian team. Apart from Suryakumar Yadav, Rituraj Gaikwad has got a place in the team as vice-captain. Ishan Kishan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dubey, Akshar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Prasidh Krishna, Mukesh Kumar and Avesh Khan have been included in the team for the T20 series against Australia. . The Indian team will play the first T20 match against Australia on 23 November in Visakhapatnam. After this, the second T20 match will be held in Thiruvananthapuram on 26 November. The third match will be held in Guwahati, the fourth in Raipur and then the last T20 match between Australia and India will be held in Bengaluru on 3 December.
? NEWS ?#TeamIndia‘s squad for @IDFCFIRSTBank T20I series against Australia announced.
Details? #INDvAUShttps://t.co/2gHMGJvBby
— BCCI (@BCCI) November 20, 2023
Shreyas Iyer will be the vice-captain in place of Ruturaj in the last two T20 matches against Australia. Shreyas had scored 530 runs in 11 matches of the recently concluded World Cup with the help of a strike rate of 113 and two centuries. Suryakumar Yadav, who was made the captain for the T20 matches to be held against Australia, has played 53 such matches so far. In these T20 matches, Suryakumar scored 1841 runs at an average of 46.02. Talking about this time’s World Cup, Suryakumar Yadav played 7 innings in 7 matches and scored 104 runs while remaining not out twice. In the final match of the World Cup against Australia, Suryakumar Yadav scored 18 runs in 28 balls. One of them was a four. Suryakumar Yadav’s best score in the World Cup was 49 runs. In such a situation, it is a surprise when he is made the captain of the T20 series.
Another shocking decision is regarding Rituraj Gaikwad. Recently, Ruturaj captained India and won the gold medal in the Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China. Even in the Asian Games, all the matches were in T20 format. In such a situation, it is no less surprising that Rituraj was made vice-captain instead of captain against Australia. Also, in the last two matches, Shreyas Iyer has been made the vice-captain in his place. Now everyone’s eyes are on how this Indian team performs against a 6-time world champion team like Australia.