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Shubman Gill has returned arsenic the ODI skipper of India’s men’s cricket squad for the ODI bid against New Zealand, portion his lawman Shreyas Iyer has besides been included, taxable to fittingness clearance, successful the 15-member squad.
According to a BCCI statement, Shreyas’s “availability is taxable to fittingness clearance from the BCCI Centre of Excellence”. The seasoned batter is connected a betterment curve aft earnestly hurting his abdominal musculus successful Australia past October. He volition diagnostic successful Mumbai’s adjacent Vijay Hazare Trophy clash successful Jaipur connected Tuesday (January 6, 2025). Gill and Shreyas person frankincense replaced Ruturaj Gaikwad and Dhruv Jurel from the squad that defeated South Africa successful November.
Gaikwad was unfortunate to person missed retired connected a spot successful the squad contempt hitting a 100 astatine No. 4 against South Africa aft being chiefly selected arsenic a reserve opener.
The merchandise besides clarified that Hardik Pandya was not considered since the aesculapian unit astatine the Centre of Excellence has advised him to not vessel 10 overs successful a crippled with an oculus connected the adjacent month’s T20 World Cup.
Rishabh Pant retained his spot with the enactment committee preferring to instrumentality to him alternatively than letting Ishan Kishan articulation the squad successful his place.
The squad
Shubman Gill (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, K.L. Rahul (WK), Shreyas Iyer (Vice-Captain)*, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant (WK), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal.
* taxable to fitness
