Team India will visit Sri Lanka next month and both Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma will be in England at that time, so Shikhar Dhawan will captain the Team India. India have to play the final match of the ICC World Test Championship against New Zealand in Southampton from June 18 and also play a five-match Test series against England. The players who have gone on the England tour are not part of the Sri Lanka tour. Team India has to play three ODIs and T20 International matches in Sri Lanka, for which the team was announced on 10 June.
Shikhar Dhawan has been made the captain, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been made the vice-captain. There are six uncapped players in the team, while Manish Pandey has returned to the team in the limited overs format. Dhawan has expressed happiness over becoming the captain through Instagram. He wrote, ‘Proud to have got the opportunity to captain the country. Thanks everyone for the well wishes.
Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Vice-Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal, Rituraj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana, Ishan Kishan, Sanju Samson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar, Krishna Gautam, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty, Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakaria.
