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Shubman Gill connected Saturday (October 4, 2025) replaced Rohit Sharma arsenic the Indian Test cricket skipper for the upcoming ODI bid against Australia. Shreyas Iyer has been named arsenic vice-captain for the series.
Gill, 26, present holds a ceremonial relation successful each 3 formats arsenic the skipper of the Test and ODI teams and the vice-captain of the T20I squad.
Both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli has been named successful the squad for the circuit of Australia. | Photo Credit: AP
BCCI main selector Ajit Agarkar’s announcement of the Indian squad comes shortly aft India thrashed West Indies successful the archetypal Test in Ahmedabad connected Saturday (October 4, 2025).
The BCCI said Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are portion of the Indian squad for ODIs against Australia.
The upcoming ODI bid successful Australia volition beryllium their archetypal planetary quality successful much than 7 months. After the 3 ODIs successful Australia, their adjacent opportunities to play for India are successful the three-ODI location bid against South Africa successful November-December and against New Zealand successful January.
The selectors person rested accelerated bowler Jasprit Bumrah for the bid and recalled Yashasvi Jaiswal to the squad.
After announcing the squad, Ajit Agarkar said “Rohit Sharma has been communicated astir alteration of captaincy.”
He said “We don’t play excessively galore ODIs and we needed to springiness the adjacent feline capable time.”
Squad
Indian ODI squad for Australia tour: Shubman Gill (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (vice captain), Axar Patel, KL Rahul (WK), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Yashasvi Jaiswal.
India’s T20I squad: Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Tilak Varma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Sanju Samson (WK), Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar.
