Rohit, Pant, Jadeja, and Hardik return as India take on West Indies in first T20I at Trinidad
With lower than three months left for the T20 World Cup, commander Rohit Sharma and trainer Rahul Dravid will get around 16 games.
After a clean reach over West Indies in the ODIs, India will now take on the men in maroon in a five- match T20 series on 29 July, Friday.
With lower than three months left for the T20 World Cup, commander Rohit Sharma and trainer Rahul Dravid will get around 16 games( 5 vs WI, 5 in Asia Cup( if India play the final), 3 vs Australia, 3 vs South Africa) to establishment up their core platoon that will also play unchanged going into the mega event.
The bare study of a first eleven comprising Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya and Dinesh Karthik as the five specialists batters in the top six can have an intimidating as well as a enervating effect on the opposition.
And that too at a time when a player of Virat Kohli's elevation has been failing miserably in the shortest format and dubieties are being cast about his place in the playing XI.
Boasting a many T20 specialists and hard- blockbuster, the hosts are likely to go with the same team featuring similar as Brandon King, Kyle Mayers, and Rovman Powell that beat Bangladesh 2- 0 in the three- match series back home before this month.
The likes of Myers and commander Pooran are also in good form with the club, and that could give West Indies the right quantum of confidence to give India a tough fight.
Full T20 outfits
India Rohit Sharma( C), Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Dinesh Karthik, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh
West Indies( Probable) Nicholas Pooran( C), Shamarh Brooks, Brandon King, Rovman Powell, Keacy Carty, Kyle Mayers, Jason Holder, Gudakesh Motie, Keemo Paul, Shai Hope, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Jayden Seales
