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NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) connected Sunday named the squad for the three-match ODI bid against South Africa.KL Rahul, India’s first-choice wicketkeeper-batter successful ODIs, has been appointed stand-in skipper for the series.Axar Patel is not portion of the squad, portion Ravindra Jadeja has returned aft missing the Australia ODIs. Varun Chakravarthy, who played a cardinal relation for India successful the Champions Trophy, has besides been near out.Tilak Varma has been included successful the mediate order, a determination that signals the squad management’s program to adhd much left-hand batters successful that phase.Ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah has been rested for the ODI series.
Why Rahul was named captain
Regular skipper Shubman Gill and vice-captain Shreyas Iyer were not disposable for enactment due to the fact that of injuries.
Rahul was named skipper successful their absence.Gill suffered a cervix wounded during the archetypal Test successful Kolkata, which India lost. Iyer continues to retrieve from a spleen wounded helium picked up past period during the ODI bid successful Australia.KL Rahul has truthful acold led India successful 12 ODIs.With Iyer unavailable, a middle-order slot opened up for Tilak Varma, who precocious played successful a one-day bid against South Africa A successful Rajkot.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
