Pollard’s younger brother is the captain, Rinku-Shivam Dubey get a chance to debut, Team India announced for New Zealand Test series!

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|14-07-2024

Team India: This year the Indian team's schedule is going to be very busy. Actually this year they have to do many foreign tours, as well as they will also participate in many domestic series. In the same sequence, in 2024, India will host a three-match Test series against New Zealand at home.

Team India will have the upper hand in this series. For this, the 15-member squad of Men in Blue has been revealed. Rohit Sharma has been given the command of the team. Apart from this, young cricketers of the team Rinku Singh and Shivam Dubey are going to get a chance to debut.

Let us know in detail, which other players can be included.

Team India's schedule for New Zealand tour

Team India

India and New Zealand (IND vs NZ) will play against each other in a three-match Test series this year.

The schedule of this series has already been announced. Both the teams are going to play the first match on October 16. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru is going to host this match.

Apart from this, the second match will be held in Pune on October 24. At the same time, both the teams will be seen playing their last test from November 1 at the historic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

Rohit Sharma will lead Team India

The Test series against New Zealand is going to be very important for Team India. In fact, if this team has to play the final of the World Test Championship next year, then they will need to perform better during the upcoming series.

BCCI can hand over the command of the team to Rohit Sharma for this series.

These young players will get a chance to debut

Some young players can be seen in the squad of Team India, which will play a three-match Test series against the Kiwi team from October 16. Apart from explosive batsman Rinku Singh, it will also include all-rounder Shivam Dubey. Both of them have performed very well in T20 and ODI so far. In such a situation, they can be given a big opportunity in Test cricket as well.

India's probable squad for the Test series against New Zealand:

Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dubey, Sarfaraz Khan, Washington Sundar, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Avesh Khan, Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Mohammad Siraj.

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