IND Vs WI: India will tour the Caribbean for a full series in July 2023. The tour starts with a two-match Test series from 12th July 2023 and it also consists of One-Day International matches and T20 International games.
India and West Indies will be playing three fifty overs format games and five matches in the shortest format.
The Test squad for the two-match red ball series and the ODI squad for the three-match ODI series have already been announced by the Indian Cricket Board, BCCI.
Ajinkya Rahane returns as vice-captain of the Test team after he was dropped from the red ball side in 2022.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Mukesh Kumar will be part of this tour as well and they have been included in Tests and ODIs teams.
After a good show in the Indian Premier League 2023 season, the youngsters like Tilak Varma and Yashashvi Jaiswal have been named in the squad of the five matchT20 International series against West Indies.
Tilak Varma batted well for his franchise side, Mumbai Indians (MI). He had scored 343 runs this season.
While Yashasvi Jaiswal was the fifth-highest run-getter in that tournament from his franchise team, Rajasthan Royals (RR).
The RR opener slammed 625 runs with one century and five half-centuries in this season of the cash-rich league tournament. This T20I side will be led by Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav will be the vice-captain.
The skipper of the Double R side, Rajasthan Royals returns to India’s limited overs squad for the tour of West Indies in 2023.
Sanju was picked in the three-match one-day international series as well and he has been named for the five-match series of the shortest format.
Senior players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are not been included in the T20I squad of the men in blue side.
In the T20I squad, team India has named four spin bowlers and Axar Patel will be back in the team. Avesh Khan, the fast bowler will also return to the T20I squad of Team India. He played for India in the Asia Cup 2022.
While Washington Sundar, Shivam Mavi, Jitesh Sharma, Rahul Tripathi and Prithvi Shaw have not been included in any of the squad of this Caribbean Tour.
Ishan Kishan(wk), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(vc), Sanju Samson(wk), Hardik Pandya(c), Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Umran Malik, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar.
