{"id":3426,"date":"2021-06-10T22:56:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T17:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2021-06-11T22:54:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:24:19","slug":"india-squad-for-sri-lanka-tour-announced-shikhar-dhawan-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/india-squad-for-sri-lanka-tour-announced-shikhar-dhawan-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"India Squad for Sri Lanka Tour announced : Watch India vs Sri Lanka Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>India Squad for Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; <strong>The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the\u00a0Indian squad for Sri Lanka tour of 2021.<\/strong> Shikhar Dhawan will be leading the India National Cricket Team in Sri Lanka. Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been named the vice-captain for India. See\u00a0<strong>India vs Sri Lanka Schedule.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indian cricket team is all set to play against Sri Lanka in a three-match ODI and three-match T20I series in the month of July. The series will commence from July 13.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BCCI<\/strong> on Thursday, announced a 20-member limited-overs squad to face Sri Lanka on the limited-overs tour. A total of six new players have been added to the India Squad for Sri Lanka Tour.<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Devdutt Padikkal<\/li>\n<li>Ruturaj Gaikwad<\/li>\n<li>Krishnappa Gowtham<\/li>\n<li>Chetan Sakariya<\/li>\n<li>Varun Chakravarthy<\/li>\n<li>Nitish Rana<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 5 net bowlers have also been added for the tour apart from the 20-member squad which consists of Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh, Sai Kishore, Simranjeeet Singh.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>India Squad for Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana, Ishan Kishan (Wicket-keeper), Sanju Samson (Wicket-keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar, K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Vice-captain), Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shikhar Dhawan will captain India in their limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka in July \ud83e\udde2<\/p>\n<p>Full squad \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v7NGP8Bsnc\">pic.twitter.com\/v7NGP8Bsnc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1403033985349951488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>India vs Sri Lanka Schedule<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The three ODIs will be played on July 13, 16, and 18. While the T20I series will commence on July 21, and the next two matches will be played on July 23 and 25.\u00a0All the matches will be played at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cb-col-100 cb-col cb-series-matches ng-scope\">\n<div class=\"cb-col-25 cb-col pad10 schedule-date ng-isolate-scope\"><strong><span class=\"ng-binding\">Jul 13, Tue &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Sri Lanka vs India, 1st ODI &#8211; R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-75 cb-col\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-100 cb-col cb-series-brdr cb-series-matches ng-scope\">\n<div class=\"cb-col-25 cb-col pad10 schedule-date ng-isolate-scope\"><strong><span class=\"ng-binding\">Jul 16, Fri &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Sri Lanka vs India, 2nd ODI &#8211; R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-75 cb-col\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-100 cb-col cb-series-brdr cb-series-matches ng-scope\">\n<div class=\"cb-col-25 cb-col pad10 schedule-date ng-isolate-scope\"><strong><span class=\"ng-binding\">Jul 18, Sun &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Sri Lanka vs India, 3rd ODI &#8211; R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-75 cb-col\">\n<div class=\"cb-col-40 cb-col cb-srs-mtchs-tm\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-100 cb-col cb-series-brdr cb-series-matches ng-scope\">\n<div class=\"cb-col-25 cb-col pad10 schedule-date ng-isolate-scope\"><strong><span class=\"ng-binding\">Jul 21, Wed &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Sri Lanka vs India, 1st T20I &#8211; R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-75 cb-col\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-100 cb-col cb-series-brdr cb-series-matches ng-scope\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-25 cb-col pad10 schedule-date ng-isolate-scope\"><strong><span class=\"ng-binding\">Jul 23, Fri &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Sri Lanka vs India, 2nd T20I &#8211; R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-75 cb-col\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-100 cb-col cb-series-brdr cb-series-matches ng-scope\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-25 cb-col pad10 schedule-date ng-isolate-scope\"><strong><span class=\"ng-binding\">Jul 25, Sun &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Sri Lanka vs India, 3rd T20I &#8211; R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"cb-col-75 cb-col\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the absence of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan was the favourite to take up the captaincy of the team for the white-ball series against Sri Lanka. Shreyas Iyer&#8217;s name was also there but the batsman was unlikely to be included for the series due to shoulder injury, Dhawan looks set to lead the team.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3428\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6108c-16207922407495-800.jpg\" alt=\"India Squad for Sri Lanka Tour announced : Shikhar Dhawan captain\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6108c-16207922407495-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6108c-16207922407495-800-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6108c-16207922407495-800-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6108c-16207922407495-800-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6108c-16207922407495-800-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">India Squad for Sri Lanka Tour announced : Shikhar Dhawan captain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rahul Dravid<\/strong>, who is widely recognised among the finest coaches in the world, has already led the India U-19 team to World Cup glory in 2018. He is now set to take up the head coach&#8217;s role of team India Squad for Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Squad for Sri Lanka &#8211; The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the\u00a0Indian squad for Sri Lanka tour of 2021. Shikhar Dhawan will be leading the India National Cricket Team in Sri Lanka. Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been named the vice-captain for India. See\u00a0India vs Sri Lanka Schedule. 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