Team India: The Indian team has to play a three-match Test series against New Zealand this year and in this, 5 players who flopped in IPL 2024 have been given a place in the team. In this series, veteran batsmen Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have not been included in the team.

Gautam Gambhir has not given place to these two veterans in the team and now they will not be seen playing against New Zealand. In this, 5 players who flopped in IPL have been given a chance.

5 players who flopped in IPL got a chance

Let us tell you that Rohit and Virat can be rested in the Test series against New Zealand, while the 5 players who flopped in the IPL can get a place in the team. The top name in this is Yashasvi Jaiswal. Yashasvi could not perform well this season and scored 435 runs but his bat worked only in a few matches and he flopped.

Apart from Yashasvi, Dhruv Jurel is also included in this list, who could score only 195 runs and now he can be given a chance against the Kiwi team. So Ishan Kishan can also get a chance in this series but he failed in IPL 2024 and could score only 320 runs.

Kolkata captain Shreyas Iyer can also get a place in the team. Even though the team became champion under his captaincy, his bat did not perform well and he could score only 351 runs, while Suryakumar Yadav, who scored 345 runs in the entire season, can also be given a chance.

Know when this series will be played

This series between India and New Zealand will start from October 16 and its first match will be played in Bengaluru. Apart from this, the second match will start from October 24 in Pune, while the third and last match will be played from November 1 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

Gautam Gambhir is going to be the next coach of India and he has talked about making a young team and for this reason young players can be given a chance in this series.

India's team could be like this

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Sarfaraz Khan, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah (captain), Mukesh Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar.