NEW DELHI: The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday named the squad for the three-match ODI collection towards South Africa.KL Rahul, India’s first-choice wicketkeeper-batter in ODIs, has been appointed stand-in captain for the collection.Axar Patel will not be a part of the squad, whereas Ravindra Jadeja has returned after lacking the Australia ODIs. Varun Chakravarthy, who performed a key position for India within the Champions Trophy, has additionally been neglected.Tilak Varma has been included within the center order, a transfer that indicators the crew administration’s plan so as to add extra left-hand batters in that part.Ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah has been rested for the ODI collection.
Why Rahul was named captain
Common captain Shubman Gill and vice-captain Shreyas Iyer weren’t obtainable for choice due to accidents. Rahul was named captain of their absence.Gill suffered a neck damage through the first Take a look at in Kolkata, which India misplaced. Iyer continues to get better from a spleen damage he picked up final month through the ODI collection in Australia.KL Rahul has to this point led India in 12 ODIs.With Iyer unavailable, a middle-order slot opened up for Tilak Varma, who not too long ago performed in a one-day collection towards South Africa A in Rajkot.The primary ODI of the three-match collection shall be performed on November 30 in Ranchi, the second ODI in Raipur on December third, and third ODI in Visakhapatnam on December sixth.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