The Indian cricket team left tonight (Wednesday) for their nearly two-month long Australia tour beginning on November 27.
Players who played on different teams in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020, which lasted almost a month and a half, are getting ready to fight with one mind in the blue jersey again.
All the players, including skipper Virat Kohli and head coach Ravi Shastri, assembled in Dubai, where the IPL 2020 final was held on Tuesday night, and are now heading to Australia to play a series of 3 T2Os, 3 ODIs and 4 Tests.
After more than two months, the players left the bio-bubble in the UAE and will be entering another one upon their arrival in Australia.
This time, the players were wearing customised PPE kits and face masks that look super cool.
Team India T20I squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul (vice-captain and wicket-keeper), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Varun Chakravarthy.
Team India ODI squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul (vice-captain & wicket-keeper), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur.
Team India Test squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper), Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, R. Ashwin, Mohd. Siraj.
The BCCI said that four additional bowlers – Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kartik Tyagi, Ishan Porel and T Natarajan – will also travel with the Indian team.