Rohit and Kohli are on permanent leave, Gambhir has made his close friends captain and vice-captain, 16-member Indian team announced for England ODI series!

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|25-07-2024

Team India: The Indian team will take part in many important series in the coming time. One of these series is going to be against England. A series of five T20 and three ODI matches will be played between the two teams. This will be very important for Team India in terms of preparations for the Champions Trophy 2025.

India's 16-member squad has been announced for the upcoming series. Senior players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been rested from this series. Let's know in detail which players will be included in the team.

Team India's schedule against England

Team India

India and England are going to play a series of three ODIs within a year. Team India is going to host the upcoming series. BCCI has already announced the schedule for this. The first match will be played in Nagpur on 6 February. The second ODI will be held in Cuttack on 9 February and the third ODI will be held in Ahmedabad on 12 February.

These players including Rohit-Virat got rest

During the ODI series against England, the team management can rest its senior players. The list will include players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jaspreet Bumrah. In fact, before the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 to be held in Pakistan, Team India would like its main players to be fully fit. Youngsters can be given a chance in their place.

These players will get a chance in the squad

BCCI can hand over the command of Team India to KL Rahul in the ODI series against England. In fact, in the absence of Rohit Sharma, this wicketkeeper batsman is the best option for captaincy. KL's captaincy record is also very good.

Last year, under his captaincy, India won the ODI series against Australia and South Africa. Apart from this, young players like Sai Sudarshan, Riyan Parag can be given a chance in the team. India's probable squad will be something like this.

India's probable squad against England:

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rituraj Gaikwad, KL Rahul (captain), Shreyas Iyer (vice-captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Sai Sudarshan, Shivam Dubey, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Riyan Parag, Axar Patel, Khalil Ahmed, Harshit Rana.

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