Injured Rohit Left Out of India’s Squad for Australia Tour

Senior batsman Rohit Sharma was left out of India's upcoming Australian tour due to injury when the country's cricket board announced the test and limited-over squads on Monday.

Paceman Ishant Sharma also misses the highly awaited sequence, which will include four Tests, three one-day internationals and three Twenty20 matches in the coming months, reports AFP.

“The BCCI Medical Team will continue to monitor the progress of Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma,” the Board of Control for Cricket in India said in a statement.

Rohit, captain of the Indian Premier League defending champion Mumbai Indians, injured his hamstring in a game on October 18 and missed next two matches for his side.

Ishant was removed from the T20 tournament after playing just one match for the Delhi Capitals after a muscle tear during the training session earlier this month.

Opening batsman KL Rahul returned to the 18-member Test Team after his prolific IPL score was kept behind closed doors in the United Arab Emirates.

Rahul, captain of Kings XI Punjab, leads the IPL battling with 595 runs including a century and 50 plus scores in 12 matches.

Paceman Mohammed Siraj also had a chance to make his Test debut after an impressive IPL display for Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers in Bangalore.

Kohli and his team are set to depart for Australia after the IPL final on November 10 and the virus-hit-year quarantine of Down Under.

According to reports in the Indian media Test specialists Cheteshwar Pujara and Hanuma Vihari have landed in the UAE along with the support staff including head coach Ravi Shastri.

Teams:

Test squad: Virat Kohli (capt), Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Rishabh Pant (wk), Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Siraj

ODI squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul (vice-captain and wk), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur

T20I squad: Virat Kohli (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul (vice-captain and wk), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Sanju Samson (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Varun Chakravarthy.