Suryakumar Yadav is set to lead India in their five-match T20I series against Australia which begins days after their heartbreaking defeat against Australia in the ICC World Cup 2023 final.
Australia bowled India out for a modest 240 before opener Travis Head’s brilliant 137 – the third by an Australian in a World Cup final – allowed them to reach the target with six wickets and seven overs to spare. save to win the showcase event for a while. record extension for the sixth time.
The two sides, however, are set to lock horns just four days after the World Cup final at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium as the first of the first T20Is takes place in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.
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India are yet to announce their squad with less than three days left for the series to begin, but according to a report CricbuzzSuryakumar Yadav will take over from the injured Hardik Pandya as India’s captain.
Pandya suffered an ankle injury during India’s group match against Bangladesh in Pune during the recently concluded World Cup. The injury – later revealed to be a ligament tear – not only ruled him out of the rest of the World Cup as well as Australia’s T20Is, it also overshadowed his participation in the white-ball leg. upcoming tour of South Africa starting December.
Surya, who is India’s designated vice-captain in the shortest format, did not get the best of the run in the World Cup after replacing Pandya in the middle order. SKY collected just 106 runs in seven outings at an average of 17.66, the highest of which was a 47-ball 49 against England on a tough wicket in Lucknow, and could only manage 18 off 28 balls in the final in against Australia.
The Mumbai Indians star will hope to make up for his underwhelming run in the World Cup with a series of strong performances in the upcoming series against Australia.
Test and ODI skipper Rohit Sharma has not been part of the T20I set-up since leading the Men in Blue to the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup in Australia last year, and neither Virat Kohli nor Mohammed Shami, who finished top of the list hurlers and the respective competitors in the World Cup.
Meanwhile, the Aussies will be captained by Matthew Wade and the squad will feature a number of World Cup winners including opener Cynn, who has been dubbed the ‘Player of the Finals’.
As well as Ceannaire, senior batsmen David Warner and Steve Smith, all-tournament players Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stonis, leg-spinner Adam Zampa and batsman Josh Inglis were retained.
Regular Pat Cummins has retired from the series along with fellow pacers Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood.
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