{"id":83506,"date":"2021-06-11T05:27:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=83506"},"modified":"2021-06-11T05:59:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:59:31","slug":"india-announce-second-string-squad-for-sri-lanka-series-dhawan-to-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=83506","title":{"rendered":"India announce \u2018second-string\u2019 squad for Sri Lanka series, Dhawan to lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D8nfacxW4AIwVIR.jpg\" width=\"1199\" height=\"849\" title=\"\" alt=\"Shikhar Dhawan out of World Cup with a fractured thumb\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Shikhar Dhawan was named captain of a second-string Indian side which includes a host of local performers for the limited-overs series in Sri Lanka next month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India will play three one-day internationals and three Twenty20 matches in the island nation starting July 13 in Colombo, according to the Board of Control for\u00a0Cricket\u00a0in India (BCCI).<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Test team led by Virat Kohli are in England to face New Zealand for the World Test Championship final between June 18-22 and then stay on for a five-Test series against the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Devdutt Padikkal,\u00a0Ruturaj Gaikwad,\u00a0Ruturaj Gaikwad,\u00a0Varun Chakravarthy have been named in the 20-member squad. Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson have been picked as wicketkeepers.<\/p>\n<p>Dhawan will be assisted by fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who has been named vice-captain.<\/p>\n<p>The final two ODI matches will be played on July 16 and 18 followed by the three T20 games on July 21, 23, and 25.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Squad:<\/strong>\u00a0Shikhar 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, K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Vice-captain), Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya<\/p>\n<p><strong>Net bowlers:<\/strong> Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh, Sai Kishore, Simarjeet Singh<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Shikhar Dhawan was named captain of a second-string Indian side which includes a host of local performers for the limited-overs series in Sri Lanka <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=83506\" title=\"India announce \u2018second-string\u2019 squad for Sri Lanka series, Dhawan to lead\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83508,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83506\/revisions\/83508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}