Team India: The Indian team is scheduled to play a series of three T20Is and three ODIs on the tour of Sri Lanka. With this tour, the tenure of the new head coach of Team India Gautam Gambhir is starting. Before the start of the Sri Lanka tour, head coach Gautam Gambhir and chief selector Ajit Agarkar held a press conference in Mumbai. Meanwhile, both answered questions related to Indian cricket.
Mumbai | Indian Men’s cricket team chief selector, Ajit Agarkar says, "Hardik Pandya is a very important player, we have seen it in the World Cup and we need him, but his fitness is a big challenge now. I think we can manage him better. He is still part of our team… Surya…
Chief selector Ajit Agarkar said, Suryakumar Yadav was made captain because he is one of the deserving candidates. You want a captain who plays all the matches. Hardik Pandya's fitness is a challenge for him. Hardik is a very important player, but his fitness is a concern. It becomes difficult for selectors/coaches to play him every match. We wanted a captain who was available to play all the matches. Surya has all the qualities needed to succeed.
Clarified about Rituraj and Abhishek
On dropping Rituraj and Abhishek, Ajit Agarkar said, Any player who will be dropped from the team will feel very bad, just look at Rinku, he did very well before the T20 World Cup, but he couldn't make it to the team. We can only select 15 players.
Jadeja not dropped: Agarkar Ajit
Agarkar told all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, 'There was no point in picking both Akshar and Jadeja. One of them would be benched anyway. Jadeja is not going to be dropped. A long Test season is coming.
Let us tell you that the Indian team will start the tour of Sri Lanka on July 27. The Indian team will play a total of 6 matches in 12 days on the Sri Lanka tour. First, a 3-match T20 series will be played between India and Sri Lanka. The first T20 will be played on 27th, the second T20 on 28th and the last T20 on 30th July. All these matches will be played from 7 PM IST in Pallekale.
After that a 3 match ODI series will be played between the two teams. The first ODI will be played on 2nd August. After that, the remaining two ODI matches will be played on August 4 and 7. All the three ODI matches will be played in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. It will be played at Premadasa Stadium. These 50-50 over ODIs will start at 2.30 PM IST.
