Off they go: Team India sets sail for Down Under. See photos
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The Indian team set off for the much-awaited tour of Australia that will last over two months on Friday from Mumbai.
India will play three T20Is, four Test matches and three ODIs with the T20 series beginning on November 21 at the Gabba.
The full team including the likes of T20 specialists Krunal Pandya, Shikhar Dhawan, Dinesh Karthik, Washington Sundar as well as the players involved in the Test series in Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Umesh Yadav were seen at the airport.
Other part of the Test team that includes Prithvi Shaw, Murali Vijay, Hanuma Vihari, Ajinkya Rahane and Parthiv Patel are currently in New Zealand, playing the unofficial Test versus New Zealand A at Mount Maunganui.
Rohit, Karthik, Yuzvendra Chahal were all seen in a jovial mood while captain Virat Kohli was also seen obliging a fan with a photo at the airport.
Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah also posted a photo of himself from the plane.
India's three T20Is will be played at Brisbane (November 21), Melbourne (November 23) and Sydney (November 25). That will be followed by Test matches at Adelaide (December 6 - December 10), Perth (December 14 - December 18), Melbourne (December 26 - December 30) and Sydney (January 3 - January 07).
The two series will be followed by three ODIs in Sydney (January 12), Adelaide (January 15) and Melbourne (January 18).
The ODI squad for the three-match series is yet to be announced.
India T20I squad:
Virat Kohli (C), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav, K Khaleel Ahmed
India Test squad:
Virat Kohli (C), Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Parthiv Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar