With the Indian selectors deciding to rest most of the seniors who played the ICC World Cup, Suryakumar Yadav will lead the Indian team in the five-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series against Australia starting in Visakhapatnam on 23 November.
With India losing to Australia in the tournament final at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday, the national selection committee, which met at the stadium on Sunday itself, decided to rest all players minus Suryakumar, Ishan Kishan and Prasidh Krishna, who was included as a replacement for injured allrounder Hardik Pandya.
The selectors announced the squad for the upcoming five-match T20I series against Australia on Monday. Former India batter and National Cricket Academy (NCA) chief VVS Laxman is likely to be announced as team coach since chief coach Rahul Dravid, whose tenure is set to be over after the World Cup, has decided to go on leave after three months.