New Delhi: Team India's star batsman KL Rahul has been ruled out of the West Indies tour due to surgery and the subsequent corona infection. Now, in his place, Team India's wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson has been included as a replacement for the T20 series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) itself has confirmed this. The BCCI has dropped KL Rahul's name from the Indian squad selected for the five-match T20 series against the West Indies. Also, Sanju Samson has been included in the squad.
Let us know that the Indian cricket team now has to play a five-match T20 series on the West Indies tour. The first match will be played today (July 29) at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad from 8 pm. Recently, team India, led by Shikhar Dhawan, defeated the West Indies 3-0 in the three-match ODI series at home. Sanju was selected for the ODI series against the West Indies, but his name was not there in the T20 squad. But now with Rahul's exit, he has entered the team again.
Let us know that KL Rahul recently underwent surgery in Germany. From this, he was recovering that he was hit by corona. However, now Rahul has won the battle against Corona too, but the BCCI's medical team has asked him to rest for a few days. In fact, even after the recovery of Corona, Rahul has a little weakness.
Indian squad: Rohit Sharma (captain), Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Akshar Patel, R Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh.
West Indies: Nicholas Pooran (captain), Rovman Powell (vice-captain), Shamrah Brooks, Dominic Drake, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Akil Hossain, Alzarri Joseph, Brendan King, Kyle Meyers, Obed Macoy, Keemo Paul, Romario Shepherd, Odin Smith, Devon Thomas and Hayden Walsh Jr.
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