Team India did not waste any time upon reaching South Africa, Durban, and started with their training on Friday itself, for the first T20I of the three-match series. BCCI posted a picture of the team in the huddle, from their official X account. Team India, under Suryakumar Yadav, is scheduled to kickstart their campaign against the Proteas on December 10, and will play two more T20Is post that. Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Rohit Sharma have been rested for the white-ball formats and will join the team closer to the first Test.
After the culmination of the T20I series on December 14 at Johannesburg, the three-match ODI series will start on December 17, at the same venue. Thereafter, India will also play a two-match Test series, which gets underway on December 26, at Centurion. Meanwhile, for a month-long tour, Team India is going with 47 different players, carefully marked across different formats.
Shubman Gill & Yashasvi Jaiswal in Line to Open in 1st T20I
A couple of days before the first IND vs SA T20I, there are slight indications, that Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal might be handed out the responsibility of opening the innings. As per Star Sports’ Follow the Blues, it was these two who came out to practice at the nets first. That was followed by Shreyas Iyer and Ruturaj Gaikwad. Then came the middle-order comprising Surya, Rinku, and Tilak Verma.
India’s squad for 3 T20Is: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (C), Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Ravindra Jadeja (VC), Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Deepak Chahar.
