Rohit Will Not Play in New Zealand, BCCI Rested Him For Australia Tour

Rohit Will Not Play in New Zealand, BCCI Rested Him For Australia Tour

• India A’s first four-day test will be played in Bay Oval from November 16.
• Karan Nair will take charge of India A in second and third Tests.

Mumbai: The #Indian cricket team will depart for Australia tour this week. There is to be competition from November 21. India-A team had to play a series in New Zealand to prepare for the tour of Australia. #Rohit Sharma was also involved in this team, but the Board of Control for #Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to give him rest instead of sending him to New Zealand.

India A will play three ODIs and three Tests in New Zealand: India A has to play three unofficial tests against New Zealand A, three ODIs and three four-day matches. The first test will be played from 16 to 19 November. India A’s command is in the hands of Ajinkya Rahane. All players except Rohit have reached New Zealand.

Rohit could not go to New Zealand due to playing in the Twenty20 series against the West Indies. He had to go later, but now he will not go to New Zealand. It has been said in the statement issued by BCCI that the medical team of the board has advised Rohit Sharma to rest.

Rohit has led the team in the T20 series against the West Indies. Earlier, he was also part of Team India in the ODI series. He also captained in the Asia Cup. For this reason, the workload had increased significantly on them.

Rohit has also been selected in the T20 and Test team against Australia. Due to this, it was decided to rest for some days before the tour of Australia. The Indian team is yet to announce the ODI series against Australia.

India A team: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Murali Vijay, Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Hanuma Vihari, Parthiv Patel, Krishnappa Goutham, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Rajneesh Gurbani, Vijay Shankar, KS Bharat.

India’s T-20 team leaves for Australia on Friday: India’s T-20 team will leave for Australia from Mumbai on November 16. Many players, including Ajinkya Rahane, are already in New Zealand, so they will reach Australia from there. Karun Nayar will be the captain of India A’s second and third Test against New Zealand A.

India’s T-20 Team for Australia tour: Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sunder, Kunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaspreet Bumrah, Umesh Yadav and Khaleel Ahmed.

India’s Test Team for Australia tour: Virat Kohli (captain), Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Parthiv Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Jaspreet Bumrah.

India A team for second and third test against New Zealand A: Karun Nair (Captain), Rajneesh Gurbani, Vijay Shankar, KS Bharat, Mayank Agarwal, Ishan Kishan, Abhimanyu Ishwaran, Ravikumar Samarth, Ankit Bawne, Shubhaman Gill, Krishnappa Goutham, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mohammad Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar.