Suryakumar to lead India for Australia T20Is; Axar returns

With Hardik Pandya yet to recover from his ankle injury, Suryakumar Yadav will lead India in the five-match T20I series against Australia, starting November 23. Ruturaj Gaikwad will be the vice-captain for the first three games before handing over the responsibility to Shreyas Iyer who will join the squad for the last two matches. From the World Cup crew, Suryakumar, Ishan Kishan and Prasidh Krishna are the only ones named for the entire series, while Axar Patel, who was governed out of the World Cup with quadriceps strain, is back. In any case, there is no space for Sanju Samson and Shahbaz Ahmed, who were important for the crew for the Ireland T20Is in August. The series will begin only four days after India completed sprinters ups On the planet Cup last on Sunday in Ahmedabad. The T20Is will begin in Visakhapatnam before the series moves to Thiruvananthapuram (November 26), Guwahati (November 28), Raipur (December 1), and Bengaluru (December 3). India's squad for Australia T20Is: Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Ruturaj Gaikwad (vice-capt), Ishan Kishan (wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar, Shreyas Iyer (vice-capt, available only for last two T20Is)