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6 India regulars miss parts of West Indies white-ball series
Livemint··17 Sept
India's white-ball series against West Indies will miss several regulars after BCCI squads were named on Wednesday. Hardik Pandya and Rishabh Pant are absent from both ODI and T20I squads. Jasprit Bumrah misses both legs while playing the Asian Games. The series has three ODIs from 27 September to 3 October and five T20Is from 6 to 17 October.
Prism
What It Means For You
- ODI wicketkeeping options are KL Rahul and Dhruv Jurel; T20Is list Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson.
- Naman Dhir and Auqib Nabi received maiden ODI call-ups with several seniors unavailable.
- Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel miss ODIs for Asian Games duty but remain in the T20I plans.
What's Happening
- Pandya was named for India A's one-day series against Australia A in Puducherry from 6 October.
- Pant will captain Rest of India in the Irani Cup against Ranji champions Jammu and Kashmir.
- Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli return to the ODI setup for the West Indies series.
Who Is Away and Why
- Asian Games cricket in Japan begins on 28 September and pulls several T20 regulars first.
- Selectors want Pandya to show he can bowl 10 overs as an ODI all-rounder workload test.
- Ishan Kishan skips ODIs for Asian Games duty but is in the West Indies T20I squad.
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