Team India will start preparations for the Sri Lanka tour in a couple of days, with the squad set to quarantine in Mumbai from June 14. The team will undergo 14-days quarantine in the city before flying to Sri Lanka on June 28. Meanwhile, the BCCI announced the squad for the tour on Friday. On this tour, the Indian team has to play three-match ODIs and 3-match T20 series.
According to the information before this tour, the traveling members of the Indian contingent will undergo the COVID-19 test before they arrive in Mumbai. They will undergo further tests in Mumbai as they spend two weeks in quarantine before their departure. Team India is to leave for Sri Lanka on June 28. Upon their arrival in Colombo, Team India will undergo another 3-day quarantine in their hotel room.
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. 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
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