Indian Team: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has appointed former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir as the new head coach of Team India. Gambhir will now replace Rahul Dravid and he can himself select Team India for the Sri Lanka tour.

Let us tell you that after becoming the head coach of India, Gautam has now started selecting the team according to his choice and the team for the 3-match T20 and 3-match ODI series against Lanka can be announced soon.

Gautam Gambhir will hold a meeting with the selectors

After becoming the head coach of India, Gambhir can soon have a meeting with the selectors. The Indian team will be announced only after this meeting and in such a situation Gambhir can include players in the team as per his choice.

Let us tell you that the team can be announced after a meeting with India's chief selector Ajit Agarkar. Big players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will not be seen playing on this tour and they have been excluded.

Suryakumar Yadav will be the captain

If the media reports coming out so far are to be believed, veteran all-rounder Hardik Pandya can be given the captaincy for the T20 series. However, if Pandya is not available for this series, then Surya can be given the captaincy of the team in his place.

Apart from this, Hardik is sure to be rested in the ODI series and in such a situation, wicketkeeper batsman KL Rahul can be made the captain of India in the ODI series. Veteran players like Rohit, Virat and Jaspreet Bumrah have been rested from this tour and they will not be seen playing in it.

Indian team can be like this

T20 team: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Rinku Singh, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Axar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Siraj, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar.

ODI team: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rituraj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Sai Sudarshan, Rinku Singh, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper/captain), Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Axar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar.