Team India: The Indian team will play a 3-match T20 series with Sri Lanka from July 27. While after this, a series of 3 ODI matches is also to be played. After Sri Lanka, Team India has to play series with Bangladesh and New Zealand at home. While this year Team India has to tour South Africa.

Where a series of 4 T20 matches is to be played between South Africa and India (SA vs IND). 5 close friends of head coach Gautam Gambhir can get a chance in Team India's squad for the T20 series against South Africa. While Rohit Sharma's best friend can be made the captain of the team.

Gambhir's 5 close friends may get a chance!

Team India's new head coach Gautam Gambhir will now start his tenure with the series against Sri Lanka. While in the 4 match T20 series to be played against South Africa, 5 close friends of Gautam Gambhir can get a chance. Which may include the names of Harshit Rana, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Varun Chakraborty, Shreyas Iyer.

All these players were part of the Kolkata Knight Riders team in IPL 2024. While Gambhir was the mentor of the KKR team in IPL 2024. Due to which Gambhir is considered to have a good friendship with all these players.

Rohit's friend may get the captaincy

The series against South Africa is to start from November 8. In this series, the captaincy of Team India can be given to Rohit Sharma's close friend Suryakumar Yadav. Because, Suryakumar Yadav had earlier also got the captaincy in the series against South Africa. In which the series ended in a 1-1 draw.

Surya is also being considered as the regular captain of the T20 format. Due to which he can now get the captaincy against South Africa. At the same time, Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav are very good friends. Because, along with Team India, both these players also played in the IPL.

Team India's probable squad for South Africa

Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Mukesh Kumar.