The players were travelling from New Delhi to Australia for a white-ball tour.

India will play three ODIs and five T20Is Down Under, with both Rohit and Kohli featuring in the ODI leg. This series is a crucial step towards the next ODI World Cup cycle, as the new leadership group begins its journey together. The series starts with the 50-over fixtures on Sunday, followed by the second and third ODIs on October 23 and 25. The five T20Is will be played from October 29 to November 8.

India’s unbeaten run in the Champions Trophy, which concluded on a fairytale note with Rohit being named Player of the Match for his rollicking 76(83) in the final, marked the last appearance of the veteran duo for India.

Although they were expected to return to the Test fold, both decided to retire from the format more than a month before the England tour. With their retirement from T20Is after the fabled win in Barbados that concluded with India winning the T20 World Cup title, Rohit and Virat have transitioned into one-format players.

India Squad For the Tour of Australia:

India’s ODI squad for Australia: Shubman Gill (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (VC), Axar Patel, KL Rahul (WK), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Yashasvi Jaiswal.

India’s T20I squad: Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill (VC), Tilak Varma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Sanju Samson (WK), Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar.