Team India announced for Test series against New Zealand, this player made vice-captain

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Team India’s squad has been announced for the three-match Test series between India and New Zealand. One change has been made in this team. Yash Dayal has been dropped. The players selected during the series played against Bangladesh have been given a chance in this series as well. Only one big change is visible. Actually, before this series, no player was the vice-captain of Team India, but the name of the new vice-captain has been announced for the New Zealand series. Jaspreet Bumrah will be the vice-captain of India in this series. At the same time, the captaincy of the Indian team is in the hands of Rohit Sharma.

Travel Reserve also announced

Along with the announcement of the Indian team, the BCCI has also included four other players as travel reserves. Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harshit Rana, Mayank Yadav, and Prasidh Krishna are associated with Team India as travel reserves. Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harshit Rana, and Mayank Yadav have not yet played for the Indian Test team. However, Prasidh Krishna has played Tests for India. The BCCI has included three fast bowlers in the travel reserve. This makes it clear that along with this series, preparations are also being made for the Australia tour.

This series is very important for Team India.

The first match of this series will be played in Bengaluru on October 16. The second match is to be played in Pune. This match will be played from October 24. The third match of the series will be played on November 01. Which will be organized in Mumbai. This series is going to be very important for the Indian team. Actually, Team India is in first place in the points table of the World Test Championship and the Indian team would like to retain this position.

Indian team for three Test matches against New Zealand: 

Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Dhruv Jurel (wicket-keeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep