Team India will practice on New Year’s Day for Sri Lanka series, players will sweat in Wankhede
The Indian team will play the home series against Sri Lanka in the beginning of 2023. In this, Team India will play 3 T20 and three ODI series against Sri Lanka. The T20 series will start from January 3. Whereas the ODI series will be played from January 10. Hardik Panyda will lead the team for the T20 series, while Rohit Sharma will be seen captaining the ODI team. Before the T20 series, the Hardik Pandya-led Indian team will practice at the Wankhede Stadium on New Year’s Day (January 1, 2023), where the first match of the series will be played.
For this T20 series, fast bowlers Mukesh Kumar and Shivam Mavi have been included in the team for the first time. Apart from this, Rahul Tripathi has been made a part of the Indian team for the second time. However, he too has not made his debut yet. In this series, both fast bowlers can make their debut for India, because senior bowlers like Jaspreet Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are also not present in the team. At the same time, nothing can be said about Rahul Tripathi’s debut.
Shubman Gill can also make T20 International debut
The team’s star opener batsman Shubman Gill has also been made a part of the Indian team in this T20 series. In this series, he can make his T20 International debut. Gill has so far played Test and ODI matches for India. He has so far scored 736 runs in 25 innings of 13 Test matches at an average of 32. In this, he has scored one century and four half-centuries. Apart from this, he has scored 687 runs in 15 ODIs at an average of 57.25. In this, he has one century and 4 half-centuries to his name.
Indian team for T20 series
Hardik Pandya (captain), Ishan Kishan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (vice-captain), Deepak Hooda, Rahul Tripathi, Sanju Samson, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Akshar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Harshal Patel, Umran Malik, Shivam Mavi , Mukesh Kumar.
