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Axar Patel during a signifier league up of the 2nd Test cricket lucifer betwixt India and South Africa, astatine the Barsapara Cricket Stadium successful Guwahati. (PTI Photo)
NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) connected Sunday announced India’s squad for the three-match ODI bid against South Africa. KL Rahul, India’s first-choice wicketkeeper-batter successful ODIs, has been named the stand-in skipper for the series.Axar Patel has not been included successful the squad. Ravindra Jadeja returns to the ODI setup aft missing the bid against Australia. Varun Chakravarthy, who was India’s cardinal bowler successful the Champions Trophy, has besides been near out. Tilak Varma has been added to the mediate bid arsenic the squad looks to see much left-handed batters.
Fans furious implicit Axar Patel's omission
Axar Patel’s exclusion drew beardown reactions from fans connected societal media. Many questioned the crushed down his lack truthful soon aft the Australia series."Axar Patel getting dropped from ODI setup is truthful shocking," 1 idiosyncratic said successful a station connected X.Another instrumentality wrote, "What has Axar Patel done incorrect to not beryllium successful the IND vs SA ODI squad?" asked a idiosyncratic named Chase Masters.A 3rd idiosyncratic took a sarcastic dig, saying, "Axar got dropped from ODIs bcoz He didn’t triumph India successful Kolkata Test."Another remark connected X read, "Selection sheet with Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja - Ek Odi bid tera, ek odi bid tera."
Referring to media reports that had mentioned Axar arsenic a captaincy contender successful Shubman Gill's absence, 1 idiosyncratic wrote, "Yesterday: Axar Patel successful the contender database to pb India successful ODIs vs South Africa. Today: Axar Patel replaced by Ravindra Jadeja for ODI team."It is not wide whether Axar Patel has been rested oregon dropped from the ODI series. The archetypal ODI of the three-match bid volition beryllium played connected November 30 successful Ranchi, the 2nd ODI successful Raipur connected December 3rd, and 3rd ODI successful Visakhapatnam connected December 6th. India’s ODI squad: Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Tilak Varma, KL Rahul (C) (wk), Rishabh Pant (wk), Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harshit Rana, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Prasidh Krishna, Arshdeep Singh, Dhruv Jurel
