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NEW DELHI, AFP: All-rounder Hardik Pandya will lead India’s T20 side at home against Sri Lanka next week after selectors left several heavyweights out of the side.
Selectors have been under pressure to make wholesale changes to India’s white-ball squads after the side’s disappointing T20 World Cup semi-final defeat to England in November.
Sri Lanka’s tour begins with the first of three 20-over matches in Mumbai on 3 January before a three-match ODI series from 10-15 January.
Out-of-form wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant has been dropped from both white-ball squads, a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) media release showed late Tuesday.
Ageing superstars Virat Kohli, 34, and Rohit Sharma, 35, were not included for the three-match T20 series but both return for the ODI portion of the tour.
Sharma returns as 50-over captain after a thumb injury that forced him to sit out most of this month’s Bangladesh tour.
Veteran ODI opener Shikhar Dhawan, 37, who led the team for a three-match series against hosts New Zealand in December, was also dropped from the squad for up-and-coming rookies Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan.
India squads:
