Ishant Sharma’s younger brother becomes captain of Team India, Indian team announced for Africa T20 series! 4 players from Mumbai Indians included

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|17-07-2024

Ishant Sharma: After the Sri Lanka tour, the Indian cricket team will go on a South Africa tour, where Team India will play a series of four T20I matches against South Africa. This will be the first tour of SENA countries for Team India's head coach Gautam Gambhir. After this tour, the Indian cricket team has to go on a tour of Australia, where the Border Gavaskar series will be played between Australia and India.

Ishant Sharma's brother may get the captaincy

Rishabh Pant
Rishabh Pant

Ishant Sharma's younger brother Rishabh Pant may get the captaincy of Team India for the four T20I match series on the South Africa tour. Rishabh Pant and Ishant Sharma play for the same team in domestic cricket and IPL. Ishant Sharma plays for Delhi in domestic cricket and Rishabh Pant also plays for Delhi. At the same time, both play for Delhi Capitals in IPL and Rishabh Pant considers fast bowler Ishant Sharma as his elder brother. In this series, wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant can be seen captaining Team India.

Four players of Mumbai Indians can get a place in the team

Four players of the Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians may get a place in Team India's squad on the South Africa tour. In this list, left-handed batsman Tilak Verma, wicketkeeper batsman Ishan Kishan, Nehal Vadhera and fast bowler Akash Madhwal may get a place in the team. Tilak Verma has been performing consistently well in the last few seasons and Ishan Kishan may return to the team by playing Ranji. Apart from this, if Mumbai Indians' fast bowler Akash Madhwal and batsman Nehal Vadhera perform well in domestic cricket, they may get a place in Team India.

Team India could be like this on South Africa tour

The Indian team will play a four-match T20I series on the South Africa tour from November 8. The first match of the series will be played on November 8 and the last match on November 15.

Indian team: Rishabh Pant (captain, wicketkeeper), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhishek Sharma, Rituraj Gaikwad, Sanju Samson, Tilak Verma, Ishan Kishan, Nehal Wadhera, Akash Madhwal, Avesh Khan, Khalil Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dubey.

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