Gautam Gambhir: Team India has been announced for the Sri Lanka tour of the Indian cricket team (SL Tour). The tour will start with the T20I series from July 27 and after this Team India has to play a three-match ODI series. After the squad of Team India selected for this tour, Gautam Gambhir is being accused of bias and favoritism on social media.

Gautam Gambhir cut the leaf of Tilak Verma who is as talented as Kohli

Gautam Gambhir has started making many changes in the team as soon as he became the head coach of Team India. Along with this, he has not given a chance to Tilak Verma, the brilliant batsman playing for Mumbai Indians, in the ODI team and has given a place in the team to KKR's Shreyas Iyer instead. Before becoming the head coach of Team India, Gambhir used to play the role of mentor for Kolkata Knight Riders and Shreyas Iyer was the captain of the team. In such a situation, Gambhir is being accused of favoritism.

Gautam Gambhir dropped Jadeja and Ruturaj Gaikwad from the team

In the team selected against Sri Lanka, Gautam Gambhir has dropped Chennai Super Kings captain Rituraj Gaikwad, who performed brilliantly on the Zimbabwe tour. While playing for Team India on the Zimbabwe tour, Rituraj Gaikwad scored 77 not out, 49 runs and 7 runs in three innings. Despite this brilliant performance, Gaikwad has been dropped from Team India. At the same time, star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has been dropped from the ODI team.

Team India will play ODI series from August 2

The Indian cricket team will play three T20 and three ODI series on the Sri Lanka tour. The first match of the T20 series will be played on July 27, the second on July 28 and the third on July 30. The ODI series will start from August 2 and Team India will play the second match on August 4 and the third match on August 7. After this, the Indian team will host Bangladesh on home ground. Where Team India has to participate in a two-Test series against Bangladesh from September 19.