Rohit Sharma Named India’s New Test Captain As BCCI Announces Squads for Sri Lanka Series
The ODI and T20I skipper thus takes over from Kohli as Test captain after the latter relinquished the role back in January following India's defeat to South Africa. Jasprit Bumrah was picked as vice-captain for both Tests and T20Is. This would the beginning of a new era in India's Test captain as Rohit would aim to carry on from where Kohli left.
Rohit Sharma was named India's new Test captain as the BCCI announced squads for the upcoming Test and T20I series against Sri Lanka. As was announced Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant have been rested for the T20Is against Sri Lanka. Also, Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara have been dropped from the Test squad.
See Squads Below:
Test squad - Rohit Sharma (C), Priyank Panchal, Mayank Agarwal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Shubhman Gill, Rishabh Pant (wk), KS Bharath, R Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, R Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Sourabh Kumar, Mohd. Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Mohd. Shami, Jasprit Bumrah (VC).
— BCCI (@BCCI) February 19, 2022
T20I squad - Rohit Sharma (C),Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Surya Kumar Yadav, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Deepak Hooda, R Jadeja, Y Chahal, R Bishnoi,Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Jasprit Bumrah(VC),Avesh Khan
— BCCI (@BCCI) February 19, 2022
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