The India white-ball workforce led by Shikhar Dhawan, that includes as many as six uncapped gamers, arrived right here from Mumbai for his or her four-week tour which can function six limited-overs video games in opposition to Sri Lanka, beginning July 13.
Senior all-rounder Hardik Pandya shared an Instagra story captioned: “Touchdown, Sri Lanka, Colombo.”
Hardik Pandya instagram.
The Dhawan-led workforce will play three ODIs and three T20 Internationals within the island nation.
With common skipper Virat Kohli and the purple ball facet, at present touring England, Dhawan can have pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar as his deputy.
The BCCI had named a 20-member squad for the Sri Lanka tour that has all-rounder Hardik Pandya and the spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal from the senior lot.
Young weapons like Devdutt Padikkal, Prithvi Shaw, Nitish Rana, Ruturaj Gaikwad and rookie pacer Chetan Sakariya expectedly function within the facet that additionally has two wicket-keeper batsmen within the younger Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson.
A day previous to the departure, Dhawan had mentioned that this was “a nice blend of experience and youth.”
According to the Sri Lanka Cricket web site, the Indian workforce will probably be in room quarantine from June 29 to July 1 after which there will probably be phased out coaching from July 2 to 4 and subsequently workforce coaching from July 5.
They can even play intra-squad simulated video games for a greater thought.
Squad: 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, Okay Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Vice-captain), Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya.
Net Bowlers: Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh, Sai Kishore, Simarjeet Singh.