Under the captaincy of Shikhar Dhawan, the Indian cricket team will tour Sri Lanka for three-match ODI and T20 series. At the same time, the 20-member Team India for this tour was announced on June 10. The vice-captain of the team will be fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Former Indian batsman Rahul Dravid appointed as the head coach of the Indian team for this tour. Meanwhile, the BCCI has also confirmed T Dilip and Paras Mhambrey as the assistant coaches.
According to the reports, Paras Mhambrey will travel along with Rahul Dravid on the tour of Sri Lanka. T Dilip has worked with the India A team, while he is the fielding coach of the Hyderabad team. The ODI and T20 teams selected for this tour will be quite different as players such as skipper Virat Kohli and Vice-captain Rohit Sharma will not be part of the tour as they will be engaged in the five-match Test series in England.
Meanwhile, Team India has to play 3-matches ODI series on the Sri Lanka tour on July 13, 16, and 18 respectively. After that, a series of 3 T20 matches will take place on 21, 23 and 25 July. All matches will take place at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. At the same time, the ODI and T20 teams selected for this tour will be quite different as players such as skipper Virat Kohli and Vice-captain Rohit Sharma will not be part of the tour as they will be engaged in the five-match Test series in England.
Batsmen: Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana
Wicketkeepers: Ishan Kishan, Sanju Samson
All-rounders: Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Krishnappa Gautam
Bowlers: Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya