Karun Nair won’t be a part of India’s tour to Sri Lanka
Internet Desk: Karun Nair and Manish Pandey were choosen as the captains of India’s unofficial Test and ODI teams respectively, for India’s forthcoming tour against the Proteas.
India A will lock horns with Australia A and South Africa A in a ODI tri-series which will be followed by two four-day Test matches against South Africa.
India’s tour will begin with the first ODI against Australia A in Groenkloof on July 26.
Spinner Jayant Yadav and Karun Nair are two Indian senior team players who are the part of the tour, while Pandey is returning to the A team after recovering from an injury.
The squad for the one-day series is packed with IPL and domestic limited-overs (Vijay Hazare Trophy) performers such as Krunal Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Basil Thampi, Mohammad Shiraj and Siddharth Kaul.
On the other hand, the team for the four-day (first class) matches is full of Ranji Trophy performers such as Priyank Panchal, the top-scorer in the season gone by, Ishan Kishan, Sudeep Chatterjee, Ankit Bawne and Shahbaz Nadeem.
Also part of the first class squad is senior India fringe player Abhinav Mukund.
Since India’s tour of Sri Lanka also starts on July 26, it is a given that Nair won’t be a part of the senior squad for the Test series.
Nair, who had started his Test career with a triple century on debut in the last home season, has since been going through a bad run of form, including in the Indian Premier League where he led Delhi Daredevils in some of the matches in the absence of regular skipper Zaheer Khan.
One-day sqaud:
Mandeep Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Manish Pandey (captain), Deepak Hooda, Karun Nair, Krunal Pandya, Rishabh Pant (wk), Vijay Shankar, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jayant Yadav, Basil Thampi, Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Siddarth Kaul.
Sqaud for four-day matches:
Priyank Panchal Abhinav Mukund, Shreyas Iyer, Ankit Bawne, Karun Nair (Captain) chance to stake claim for , Sudip Chatterjee, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hanuma Vihari, Jayant Yadav specialist, Shahbaz Nadeem, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Aniket Choudhary, Ankit Rajpoot.
Fixtures:
1st one-dayer – India A vs Australia A – July 26
2nd one-dayer – South Africa A vs India A – July 28
3rd one-dayer – South Africa A vs Australia A – July 30
4th one-dayer – India A vs Australia A – August 1
5th one-dayer – South Africa A vs India A – August 3
6th one-dayer – South Africa A vs Australia A – August 5
Final – August 8
1st four-day match – South Africa A vs India A – August 12-15
2nd four-day match – South Africa A vs India A – August 19-22.