The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Friday announced the India squad for the upcoming ODI series against England, with Suryakumar Yadav and all-rounder Krunal Pandya earning a call-up.
Jasprit Bumrah, who recently got married to TV presenter Sanjana Ganesan and was excluded from the T20I series, has not been named in the ODI squad.
The three-match series begins on March 23 and all matches will be held at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune.
Apart from Suryakumar and Pandya, pacers Prasidh Krishna and Mohammed Siraj have also been named in the squad for the ODI series. Suryakumar scored a gritty 57 off 31 balls―his maiden fifty for India―in the fourth T20I against England on Thursday.
While it is believed that Pandya and Prasidh were included because of their good performance in the recently-concluded Vijay Hazare Trophy, Prithvi Shaw and Devdutt Padikkal have been ignored. Shaw and Padikkal notched up 827 and 737 runs, respectively, scoring four centuries each, in the tournament.
Prasidh picked up 14 wickets for Karnataka in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Rishabh Pant and Bhuvneshwar Kumar also find a place in the squad. Bhuvneshwar is set to play his first ODI since August 2019. Washington Sundar, who played his only ODI in December 2017, has been included as well.
Left-arm pacer T. Natarajan has regained fitness and is part of the squad following an impressive outing in Australia.
The second ODI will be played on March 26 while the third match will be held on March 28.
India beat England in the Test series 3-1 and qualified for the World Test Championship final against New Zealand that will be played from June 18.
The ongoing five-match T20I series is level 2-2 after India defeated England by eight runs in the fourth T20 on Thursday in Ahmedabad. The fifth and final T20I will be played in the same venue on Saturday.
India’s ODI squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), K.L. Rahul (wicket-keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, T. Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Shardul Thakur.
