15-member Indian team selected taking New Zealand lightly, new captain of India announced along with new coach, Gill vice-captain

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|27-07-2024

Team India: The Indian team is going to be a part of many important series this year. One of them is the three-Test series against New Zealand. If Team India wants to reach the final of the World Test Championship, then they will have to perform better in this series.

Let us tell you that for this, India's 15-member squad has been revealed. The team management has decided to hand over the command of the team to a young cricketer and not Rohit Sharma. Apart from this, Shubman Gill will be the vice-captain of the team. Let's take a look and see which players are going to get a place in the team.

Team India's schedule against New Zealand

Team India

India and New Zealand will play against each other in a three-match Test series this year. The BCCI has announced the schedule of Team India for this series. It is going to start from October 16. The first match will be organized at M Chidambaram Stadium in Bangalore. The second Test will be held from October 24. Pune of Maharashtra is going to host this match. The third Test is going to start from November 1 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

The team will get a new captain and a new coach

In the Test series against New Zealand, the team management can hand over the command of the team to Rishabh Pant. Actually, the new head coach of the team, Gautam Gambhir, wants to prepare an army of youth. In such a situation, now not Rohit Sharma but Pant, who is being called the future captain, will get more opportunities to captain. Apart from this, Shubman Gill can be declared the vice-captain. During this series, the board can announce a new bowling coach. Zaheer Khan's name is at the forefront as a bowling coach.

This will be the 15-member squad of Team India

More and more young players can be given a chance in the Test series against New Zealand starting from October 16. Actually, now that the senior players are going to retire in a year or two, the time has come for the young players to take over. Let's take a look at India's probable squad.

India's probable squad against New Zealand:

Rishabh Pant (captain), Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Khalil Ahmed and Mohammad Siraj.

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