India Tour of England – Dravid, Pant, Iyer reach England: Team India management has decided against adding Mayank Agarwal to the main squad. The BCCI wanted to add Mayank as a KL Rahul replacement. But with Shubman Gill already present as an opener, the team management doesn’t see it as a requirement to add him to the main squad. Follow India vs England Live Updates on InsideSport.IN.
Meanwhile, the second batch comprising Coach Dravid, Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer have reached London. The trio left for London on Monday morning from Bengaluru. They will team up with the rest of the team in the UK ahead of the warm-up match against Leicestershire starting June 24.
“Mayank will remain on standby. Given it’s a one-off Test, the team management doesn’t see the requirement of adding a player and then sending him home. But if there is an injury, he will be sent to England,” a senior BCCI official told InsideSport.
India Tour of England: Dravid, Pant & Iyer REACH England, team Management decides against picking Mayank Agarwal for the tour: Follow Live Updates
Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant have departed for the UK in the wee hours of Monday morning. The former shared a picture of him and Pant travelling together in the flight.
As per people close to the development, Mayank has already been asked to remain on standby and prepare for red-ball cricket on his own. Considering he was recently featured in Karnataka’s Ranji Trophy quarterfinals, he is still fresh.
“Mayank will continue to practice in Bangalore. Should the team need him as injury cover, he will be sent to England. For now, he is not travelling with the team. Had we played more than one Test, Mayank would have travelled with the squad,” the official added.
India Tour of England: Dravid, Pant & Iyer REACH England, team Management decides against picking Mayank Agarwal for the tour: Follow Live Updates
KL Rahul who was supposed to leave on June 20 has been ruled out of the England tour with a groin injury. He will instead leave for Germany sometime this month to undergo treatment for the nagging problem.
India Tour of England: Dravid, Pant & Iyer REACH England, team Management decides against picking Mayank Agarwal for the tour: Follow Live Updates
India Tour of England: All you need to know about India vs England
- First batch comprising Virat Kohli and Jasprit Burmah has reached London.
- Captain Rohit Sharma has joined the team on June 17.
- Rishabh Pant will be named the vice-captain for the tour as KL Rahul will be missing the tour due to groin injury.
- KL Rahul will leave for Germany at the end of the month to complete his recovery.
- Mayank Agarwal has been put on standby.
- The second batch comprising head coach Rahul Dravid, vice-captain Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer will leave for England Monday morning.
- India will begin with a First Class warm-up match against Leicestershire on June 24.
India Tour of England: Dravid, Pant & Iyer REACH England, team Management decides against picking Mayank Agarwal for the tour: Follow Live Updates
India Tour of England: Dravid, Pant & Iyer REACH England, team Management decides against picking Mayank Agarwal for the tour: Follow Live Updates
India’s Test squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant (wk), KS Bharat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Mohd Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Standby: Mayank Agarwal
India Tour of England Schedule:
- Four-Day Warm-up vs Leicestershire County Cricket Club – June 24-27
- India A vs Derbyshire T20: July 1
- India vs England 5th Test – July 1-5 @ Birmingham
- India A vs Northamptonshire: July 3
- IND vs ENG 1st T20: July 7 @ Southampton
- IND vs ENG 2nd T20: July 9 @ Birmingham
- IND vs ENG 3rd T20: July 10 @ Nottingham
- IND vs ENG 1st ODI: July 12 @ Kennington Oval
- IND vs ENG 2nd ODI: July 14 @ Lord’s
- IND vs ENG 3rd ODI: July 17 @ Manchester
India Tour of England: Dravid, Pant & Iyer REACH England, team Management decides against picking Mayank Agarwal for the tour: Follow Live Updates
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