Team India: The champion team of T20 World Cup 2024 now has to play a 5-match T20 series with Zimbabwe. For which the squad of Team India has been announced. Let us tell you that the T20 series between India and Zimbabwe is to start from July 6 and the last match will be played on July 14.

Young batsman Shubman Gill will captain Team India in the Zimbabwe series. At the same time, before the start of the series, Team India's chief selector Ajit Agarkar has suddenly made 3 changes in the 15-member team.

Change happened in Team India

Just before the series to be played with Zimbabwe, chief selector Ajit Agarkar has taken a big decision and made 3 big changes in the team. Let us tell you that the first T20 match will be played on 6 July at Harare ground.

But even before that, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dubey and Yashasvi Jaiswal have been dropped from Team India's squad for the first 2 T20 matches. While Sai Sudarshan, Harshit Rana and Jitesh Sharma have got a chance in place of these three players. For the series against Zimbabwe, all the young players have been given a chance in the team and the senior players have been given rest.

This is the reason why the change happened

Let us tell you that the names of Sanju Samson, Shivam Dubey and Yashasvi Jaiswal were also included in the T20 World Cup 2024 squad and these three players returned to India from West Indies on July 4. Due to which Ajit Agarkar has been forced to make changes in the team. Because, these players will not be able to reach Zimbabwe by July 6.

Due to which Sanju Samson, Shivam Dubey and Yashasvi Jaiswal have been dropped from the first two T20 matches and young players have got a chance in place of these three players. However, it is expected that Sanju Samson, Shivam Dubey and Yashasvi Jaiswal will join Team India from the third T20 match and will be seen playing in the remaining 3 matches.

Team India's 15-man squad for the first 2 matches

Shubman Gill (captain), Rituraj Gaikwad, Abhishek Sharma, Rinku Singh, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Riyan Parag, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Khalil Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Tushar Deshpande, Sai Sudarshan, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Harshit Rana.