Virat Kohli shared a photo of the team members, where they can be seen chilling and having a good time ahead of their Test series opener against West Indies in Antigua.
The first Test against West Indies marks the two teams' entry into the ICC World Test Championship. It will be played in North Sound, Antigua and starts on August 22.
India will be returning to the Test cricket after a good 7 and half months and the moot point of the playing XI will be whether Kohli-Shastri duo goes for an additional sixth batsman or an extra bowler for the first Test.
The World Test Championship will end with the top two teams playing the final, scheduled to be held in June 2021 in the United Kingdom.
Lara and Ramnaresh Sarwan have been invited by Cricket West Indies to conduct a session with the Test squad before the start of the two-match series.
Umesh hasn't got as much of an opportunity to play as he would have hoped for because of the consistency found by Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Rahane, who has not scored a hundred in more than two years, made a fighting 54 off 162 balls before a reverse sweep led to his dismissal.
Navdeep Saini has earlier been the Indian team's net bowler and a cover for Bhuvneshwar Kumar during the ICC World Cup in England as well.
Cornwall first played first-class cricket in 2014 and has 260 wickets from 55 first-class matches along with 2224 runs. He recently scored two half-centuries in two unofficial 'Tests' against India.
Cheteshwar Pujara, R Ashwin and Ajinkya Rahane will be back for India while Jasprit Bumrah will also be joining the squad as the World Championship begins with the two-Test series against West Indies.
Shreyas Iyer scored back to back fifties in the ODIs versus West Indies as India won the three-match ODI series 2-0.
Virat Kohli described Chris Gayle as an icon and "gem of a human being" who was always there to help youngsters.
Chris Gayle was applauded by the Indian players as he walked off after being dismissed in the 12th over of West Indies innings.
Virat Kohli now has scored 20502 runs in international cricket across all the formats and 20,343 runs have come in the last 10 years.
Shreyas Iyer struck his second fifty of the series and played a counter-attacking inning of 65 from 41 balls as India beat West Indies by 6 wickets.
Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav and coach Ravi Shastri led the wishes on India's 73rd Independence Day.
West Indies posted 240 for seven in 35 overs after electing to bat but India were given a revised 255-run target on Duckworth-Lewis method. Skipper Virat Kohli (114 not out) smashed his 43rd ODI century to lead India to win.
India clinched the three-match ODI series against the West Indies 2-0 with a six-wicket win in the rain-curtailed final match.
Kohli scored his 9th ODI century against Windies to equal Sachin Tendulkar's record of scoring the most number of centuries against a single nation.
On being dismissed after scoring a blistering 72 off 41 deliveries, Gayle walked back to the pavilion with his bat and helmet raised in the air after being congratulated by Team India players on field.
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