India announce squad for New Zealand Test series: No Shami, Bumrah named vice-captain

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India’s Jasprit Bumrah aft taking the wicket of Bangladesh's Taskin Ahmed connected the 2nd time of the archetypal trial cricket lucifer betwixt India and Bangladesh, astatine the MA Chidambaram Stadium, successful Chennai. (PTI)

India announced their 15-member squad for the upcoming three-match location Test bid against New Zealand connected Friday.

There nary changes made successful the creation of the squad that was named for the precocious concluded Test bid against Bangladesh, meaning Mohammed Shami won’t people his instrumentality to the Indian cricket squad aft his long-standing bout with wounded for adjacent to a year.

Shami has been retired of enactment since the 2023 ODI World Cup owing to an ankle wounded aft finishing the tourney arsenic the starring wicket-taker. India volition anticipation the experienced speedy would people a instrumentality up of the five-match Test bid successful Australia starting November 22.

Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah connected the different hand, has been named arsenic Rohit Sharma’s main deputy. In the bid against Bangladesh, Bumrah finished arsenic the joint-leading wicket taker alongside Ravichandran Ashwin – 11 scalps successful 2 matches.

Bumrah had besides captained the squad successful a one-off Test lucifer against England backmost successful 2022.

The 2 teams volition contention successful the longest format for the archetypal clip since precocious 2021, erstwhile India had defeated New Zealand 1-0 successful a two-match bid that besides saw Ajaz Patel assertion lone the 3rd 10-wicket haul successful a azygous innings aft Jim Laker and Anil Kumble.

While India find themselves successful a affluent vein of form, sitting astatine the apical of the World Test Championship points table, New Zealand – the archetypal ever WTC champions – were precocious trounced 2-0 distant from location by Sri Lanka past month.

India squad for the NZ Test series: Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Dhruv Jurel (WK), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Akash Deep

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