Pant retains place, Shami ignored: India announce team for NZ ODIs; see full squad

NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) connected Saturday announced the squad for the upcoming three-match One-Day International bid against New Zealand, starting January 11 astatine the BCA Stadium successful Vadodara.Shubman Gill has returned arsenic skipper aft missing the erstwhile ODI bid against South Africa owed to injury.Shreyas Iyer has been included successful the squad and named vice-captain. However, his availability is "subject to fittingness clearance from BCCI COE," the committee said successful a release.

Despite reports suggesting helium could beryllium near out, wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has retained his spot successful the squad arsenic Ishan Kishan, who has returned to India's T20 setup, was not included.All-rounder Hardik Pandya has besides not been included. Explaining the decision, the BCCI merchandise said, “Hardik Pandya has not been cleared by the BCCI COE to vessel 10 overs successful a match, and considering the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup to follow, his workload is being managed.”Nitish Kumar Reddy has been named successful the squad successful Pandya’s place.While pacer Mohammed Siraj is backmost successful the squad, Mohammad Shami couldn't find a spot successful the squad contempt doing immoderate dense lifting successful the home cricket successful the past fewer months, and it is present each but wide that the BCCI has decided to determination connected from Shami.

The archetypal ODI of the bid volition beryllium played successful Vadodara connected January 11. The different 2 matches volition beryllium played successful Rajkot and Indore connected January 14 and 18 respectively.India’s ODI squad: Shubman Gill (C), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (WK), Shreyas Iyer (VC), Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd Siraj, Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant (WK), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal