The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced T20I, ODI, and Test squads of men's national cricket team for the tour of Australia.
According to BCCI, the All India Senior Selection Committee met via video-conference on Monday and picked the squads of all three formats for the upcoming tour Down Under from November 2020 to January 2021.
Indian cricket team will be touring Australia in a biosecure bubble in November after the conclusion of the ongoing Indian Premier League T20 tournament in the UAE.
Indian cricket team's Test specialists Cheteshwar Pujara and Hanuma Vihari, not participating in the ongoing IPL tournament have reached the UAE along with the support staff.
The BCCI Medical Team will continue to monitor the progress of both Ishant Sharma and Rohit Sharma, who have suffered an injury while playing in the IPL.
Indian squad for Australia tour
T20Is
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, Varun Chakravarthy
One Day Internationals (ODI)
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.
Test
Virat Kohli (Captain), 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.
The selection committee has also decided to send four additional bowlers, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kartik Tyagi, Ishan Porel, and T. Natarajan with the Indian contingent to Australia said BCCI in a statement.
As per Cricket Australia's provisional schedule, the tour is likely to start with the One Day Internationals, followed by T20Is and concluding with Test series.
Sydney and Canberra are favourites to host the limited over series while Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane will be allocated one test match each.
The only Day-Night Test of the Border - Gavaskar Trophy is scheduled in Adelaide.
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Will the crowd be allowed at the Boxing Day Test?
Residents of Melbourne and regional Victoria have endured one of the strictest Coronavirus lockdowns in the world in recent days, hence, there were some speculations about the fate of the Boxing Day test match.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews while addressing the media said on Monday, “There will be a crowd at this year's Boxing Day Test when host Australia will take on India at the MCG on December 26”.
"Boxing Day Test is very different because of course that is some way off, I am very confident we will get a crowd at the G for the Boxing Day Test. I don't know how big it will be but there will be a crowd there", he said.
Boxing Day Test between India and Australia has been played at the MCG since 1985.
