Desk Report
Publish: 01 Jan 2022, 08:01 pm
KL Rahul || Photo: Collected
Indian opener KL Rahul will lead
the ODI team in South Africa, national selectors said, after newly-appointed white-ball
captain Rohit Sharma failed to recover from a hamstring injury.
Rohit was injured only days after
being named India's ODI captain in December, a promotion that completed his limited-overs
captaincy takeover from Virat Kohli.
Star batsman Kohli, who stood
down from the T20 job, was later sacked from the 50-over format leadership.
The Board of Control for Cricket
in India (BCCI) said Friday that Rohit was "ruled out owing to an
injury" and announced the 18-man squad for the three-match series starting
January 19 with pacer Jasprit Bumrah as vice-captain.
As India regulars across all
three formats of the game, both Rahul, 29, and Bumrah, 28, are seen by many as
future leaders to replace Sharma, 33, and the 33-year-old Kohli, who still
leads the national Test team.
Squad: KL Rahul (Captain),
Shikhar Dhawan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, Surya Kumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer,
Venkatesh Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Y Chahal, R Ashwin,
Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar,
Prasidh Krishna, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj
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