After the ongoing Test series against Bangladesh, India will face the same team in the three-match T20I series starting on October 6. But with an eye on the Test season, the selectors are unlikely to pick the players who are in the Test team.
Arshdeep Singh starred with the ball in the second innings of the India B vs India D third-round match of the Duleep Trophy 2024. While Arshdeep took a six-wicket haul, Ricky Bhui and Sanju Samson hit centuries to lay the platform for India B in their 257-run win.
Duleep Trophy 2024 Final Round: Sanju Samson shines after Shreyas Iyer registers another duck on Day 1 against India B while in-form Devdutt Padikkal and Ricky Bhui continued their good runs with impressive fifties for India D.
"Wicket-keeper batter Ishan Kishan has been ruled out of the first round of the Duleep Trophy due to a groin injury sustained during the ongoing All-India Buchi Babu Tournament. The BCCI Medical Team is closely monitoring his condition and working towards ensuring a swift recovery," the BCCI said.
Shreyas Iyer-led Team D is likely to miss wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan's services for the opening Duleep Trophy fixture against Team C in Ananthapur. Kishan, who recently played in the Buchi Babu tournament, has reportedly suffered an injury but might return in the second encounter.
Team India will be up against Sri Lanka in a three-match ODI series following their 3-0 T20 series win. The series is the first one in the build-up to the Champions Trophy for India and from the last time they played the ODI format in December 2023, there are quite a few changes to the squad.
Sanju Samson kept his place in the team for the third T20I but could not make his opportunity as he bagged his second successive duck in the ongoing India vs Sri Lanka T20I series. Debutant Chamindu Wickramasinghe dismissed Samson in the third game.
The BCCI selection committee head Ajit Agarkar spoke in detail about the questions and conjectures regarding India's squads for the Sri Lanka tour. One of the key pointers was the omission of players who performed in certain formats and Agarkar said that the selectors were hamstrung too.
The BCCI announced Team India's squads for ODI and T20 series against Sri Lanka. While there were a few expected calls, there were some surprises as well, as usual whenever there is a team selection not just in T20Is but ODIs as well given the Men in Blue now have to prepare for Champions Trophy.
Sanju Samson staged India's comeback by adding a 65-run stand for the fourth wicket with Riyan Parag and top-scored with 58 runs off 45 balls with the help of one four and four sixes. Samson also completed 300 sixes in the T20 format to display his big-hitting skills.
IND vs ZIM 5th T20I: The 2024 T20 World Cup-winner Sanju Samson recorded his only second T20I fifty and Shivam Dube smashed quick 26 runs to help India post a challenging total of 167 while batting first at Harare Sports Club.
Sanju Samson, the returning wicketkeeper-batter for India in the third T20I against Zimbabwe, was named the vice-captain for the remaining matches in the series. Samson and the other T20 World Cup winners Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shivam Dube, had returned to India to celebrate the triumph with the team.
IND vs ZIM 3rd T20 Playing XIs: Captain Shubman Gill won the toss and elected to bat first in the third T20I game against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club. Sanju Samson and Shivam Dube came into the playing eleven in major changes for India.
India take on Zimbabwe in the third T20I of the five-match series in Harare on Wednesday, July 10. India bounced back owing to a scintillating batting performance in the second T20I following a loss in the series opener, however, there will be a few changes with T20 World Cup winners returning.
After levelling the series 1-1, the young Indian team will be bolstered by the return of the T20 World Cup winners Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shivam Dube into the squad ahead of the third T20I against Zimbabwe. There will be a selection headache for coach and captain with so many options.
Within a week after winning the T20 World Cup, team India, with a different set of players, is set to tour Zimbabwe for a five-match T20I series starting from July 6. A few cricketers who were part of World Cup squad and were in reserves are now in stranded in Barbados.
India won the toss and opted to bat first in the final of the T20 World Cup. But they lost three wickets in the powerplay itself with Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant and Suryakumar Yadav getting out without getting to double digits. Meanwhile, Sanju Samson started trending soon after India collapsed.
The Indian team is set to kick off their T20 World Cup on Wednesday, June 5 against Ireland at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York. India have retained quite a few players from their last squad in the T20 World Cup in 2022 but they are a few new and returning faces as well.
Sanju Samson, who got a nod ahead of the likes of KL Rahul and Jitesh Sharma as India's second wicketkeeping option for the T20 World Cup, admitted that he was far from being considered and had to put in a season to remember in the IPL, which he did as he achieved first-ever season fo 500 runs.
Left-arm off-spinner Abhishek Sharma undid Sanju Samson before he could create an impact on Qualifier 2 with the willow in hand. The Rajasthan Royals captain could only manage 10 off 11 balls during his stay in the middle.
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