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Teams for T20I series against New Zealand, Test series and 2-day warm up tie against Sri Lanka announced

| @indiablooms | Oct 23, 2017, at 08:06 pm
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IBNS) : The All-India Senior Selection Committee has named the team for the 3-match T20I series against New Zealand. India are set to play three T20Is after the completion of the ongoing ODI series.

The  selectors decided to bring in batsman Shreyas Iyer and pacer  Mohammed Siraj for the T20I series.

Virat Kohli will lead the team as expected and Ashish Nehra will be a part of the squad only for the first T20I against the Kiwis as he retires at the Ferozeshah Kotla.

The committee also named the team for the first two Test matches of the three-match series and the Board President’s XI for 2-day warm-up tie against Sri Lanka.

Team India for Paytm T20I series against New Zealand:

Virat Kohli (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Mohammed Siraj.

Board President XI for 2-day warm-up tie against Sri Lanka

Naman Ojha (C)(WK), Sanju Samson, Jiwanjot Singh, B Sandeep, Tanmay Agarwal, Abhishek Gupta, Rohan Prem, Akash Bhandari, Jalaj Saxena, C V Milind, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Warrier, Ravi Kiran.

Team India for first two Test matches of the 3-match Paytm Test series against Sri Lanka

Virat Kohli (Captain), KL Rahul, Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (Vice-Captain), Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma.

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