Team India's new coach Gautam Gambhir is going to start his tenure with the Sri Lanka tour. Gambhir does not want to leave any stone unturned during this period. In such a situation, he has selected strong teams for the T20 and ODI series along with the selectors. Along with Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli has also been selected for the ODI series. He is currently in London with his family, but he will soon join the team for this series. This series is going to be very special for Virat Kohli.

Virat Kohli will do this after 7 years

The tour of Sri Lanka is going to be special for Virat Kohli because he will visit this country for an ODI series after 7 years. Virat had earlier played a bilateral series against Sri Lanka in 2017. He was also the captain of the Indian cricket team then. After this, he did not visit Sri Lanka for any ODI series. But as soon as Gautam Gambhir became the head coach, this sequence of Virat has been broken and he will now be seen playing an ODI series in Sri Lanka.

Last time a strong blow was made on Sri Lanka

Virat Kohli performed brilliantly in the last ODI series in Sri Lanka. He was the highest run scorer in the series. He scored 330 runs in 5 ODIs at an average of 110.00. During this, Virat scored 1 half-century and 2 centuries. At the same time, Rohit Sharma was second in terms of scoring the most runs in this series. He scored 302 runs in 5 matches at an average of 75.50. He also scored 1 half-century and 2 centuries in this series.

After how many years will Rohit play the ODI series in Sri Lanka?

Let us tell you, along with Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma will also go to play ODI series in Sri Lanka after 7 years. He also played the last ODI series in Sri Lanka in the year 2017. Now both these players are ready to tour Sri Lanka together once again, where Rohit Sharma will be seen leading the team.

Indian ODI team on Sri Lanka tour

Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dubey, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Riyan Parag, Axar Patel, Khalil Ahmed, Harshit Rana.