Ahead of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Indian batsmen KL Rahul and Dhruv Jurel will join the India A team in Australia.
India-A is currently touring Australia. Currently, a 2-match unofficial test series is being played between the two teams. The BCCI on Sunday decided to send KL Rahul and Dhruv Jurel to Australia to train for the second Test match starting November 7.
KL Rahul failed in both innings of the Bengaluru Test.
Rahul only played the first match against New Zealand
KL Rahul was included in the squad only for the Bengaluru Test in the series with New Zealand. In which he scored 0 and 12 points, after which he was excluded from the team in the remaining 2 matches.
Meanwhile, Jurel kept wicket as a replacement wicketkeeper after Rishabh Pant got injured in the first match. Rahul and Jurel did not get much playing time in the series against New Zealand.
In such a situation, the BCCI selection committee has decided to send these two players to Australia on Tuesday morning. He will be part of the second unofficial Test to be played in Melbourne from Thursday.
Dhruv Jurel only kept one match against New Zealand.
India’s practice match against India has been canceled
Before the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) which begins in Perth on November 22, the Indian team was scheduled to play a practice match with India A. Which was cancelled. The Indian team will leave for Australia in two batches for BGT.
After the 3-0 net score against New Zealand, Indian captain Rohit Sharma, when asked at the Border-Gavaskar Trophy press conference, said: “We are traveling with a squad of 19 players and we don’t We only had 3 days to So, I don’t know how much time everyone will have to prepare for the match. We want everyone to have enough time for the match. Therefore, the practice match was canceled so that the players could play in the nets as much as possible.
Indian squad for Border-Gavaskar Trophy vs Australia: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar.
Reserve: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed.