Only three players from the Indian team that lost the World Cup final will feature in Suryakumar Yadav’s five-match T20 International series against Australia. Suryakumar Yadav will captain India in their five-match T20 International series against Australia, leading a squad with just three members of the team that lost the World Cup final.
Suryakumar Yadav to captain India in their five-match T20 series
India was the clear favourite to win the one-day World Cup, having gone undefeated in the tournament’s qualifying matches and playing in front of nearly 100,000 spectators in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
However, Australia led by Pat Cummins outclassed Rohit Sharma’s team, losing by six wickets and shattering the hearts of millions of people all throughout the nation. For the first time, Suryakumar, one of just three ODI players chosen for the T20 squad, will lead India as captain. Prior to the World Cup, Australia and India had also played a three-match series in September.
Indian squad: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad (vice-captain), Ishan Kishan, 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.
Australian squad: Matthew Wade (captain), Aaron Hardie, Jason Behrendorff, Sean Abbott, Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Matt Short, Steve Smith, Marcus Stoinis, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa.
