Published: Sep 12, 2016, 01:04 PM (IST)
Edited: Sep 12, 2016, 01:20 PM (IST)
With the beginning of a new season in Indian cricket, Team India will be a having a long schedule at home and it will start with the Test series against New Zealand. The squad for New Zealand has already been announced and they have arrived in India too for the preparation, while Indian selectors have also selected the team for this series and as expected, there were no surprising changes in the squad. The series will began on September 22 at Green Park of Kanpur and India will once again play under the captaincy of Virat Kohli and vice-captain will be Ajinkya Rahane.
The exclusion of opener Shikhar Dhawan was expected but somehow he escaped the same. However, not to forget that he played decently in the Caribbean against West Indies in the Test series and looked promising for the next series. There was also buzz about Gautam Gambhir getting selected in the side after his excellent performance in the ongoing Duleep Trophy but that didn’t happen.
Overall, only two players got dropped from the previous Test squad and that because the previous squad was of 17 members and this is of 15. The dropped players are Shardul Thakur and Stuart Binny, who didn’t get any chance to play in India’s last Test series.
India Test squad: Virat Kohli (C), KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Murali Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shikhar Dhawan, Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav.
The team is very similar to the last series and there no surprising changes. With the news of India squad coming, we present some reactions from social media over the selected team for New Zealand series.
It might seem there is one fast bowler too many but Kohli likes pace and reverse swing gets a lot of wickets. Remember Yadav vs SA?
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) September 12, 2016
India pick a largely predictable team for the series against New Zealand. That they can do so is a measure of confidence.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) September 12, 2016
India have the option of playing 6 batsmen + keeper & 4 bowlers or 5 batsmen + 5 bowlers & keeper. Have given themselves enough options.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) September 12, 2016
#indvnz
Gambhir has coldwar with Dhoni as well as Kohli,his chances of playing for India ever again r very less https://t.co/S0BRDOlEIy— Sanjay Verma (@sanjayxo) September 12, 2016
You put out Shikhar Dhawan and Stuart Binny from the team and the match start trending even days before happening. That’s True Value.#INDvNZ — Rohit Sharma (@imRo45_) September 12, 2016
Selfish selection , stop pampering ur fav players just for commission , yes it’s about politics n money, bring back gambhir #INDvNZ — Divesh Jain (@div703) September 12, 2016
Why Gambhir has not been selected, he is in good form #INDvNZ
— Rahul (@ItsMeTheRahul) September 12, 2016
Gambhir and pankaj singh should have been given chance and they dropped shardul without giving shim a chance in last series. #biased #INDvNZ
— Varun Sharma (@VarunSharma08) September 12, 2016
Jadeja & Rohit’s reaction Aft Getting Selected In Test Team Against #NewZealand #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/cBIfj14Ayh — Sir Virendra Sehwag (@SirSehwag_) September 12, 2016
Gambhir for Dhawan but how does one think Dhawan will start? KL Rahul, Murali Vijay are the future anyway — Nikhil (@CricCrazyNIKS) September 12, 2016
@falsewinger bye bye raina — Jagmeet ਜਗਮੀਤ (@jagmeet_93) September 12, 2016
@BCCI WTF Dhawan & Rohit doing there? This is cruelty.
— SAAR (@WriterIntrovert) September 12, 2016
@BCCI Feel sad for #gambhir but really happy that #Binny is not in the squad….
— Prashant jain (@bbdit) September 12, 2016
Same Team India for #NZ series (minus Binny & Shardul). Still no place for Gautam Gambhir.#INDvNZ #Cricket
— Chinmay Jawalekar (@CricfreakTweets) September 12, 2016
No surprises in India’s Test squad. Proven spin trio, turning tracks expected. No need for two seam-bowling options. Three openers. #INDvNZ
— Jamie Alter (@jamie_alterTOI) September 12, 2016
It’s hard to understand on which basis Rohit is selected for NZ series…Shame on @BCCI u don’t deserve players like @GautamGambhir#INDvNZ
— Ankur (@achand82_ankur) September 12, 2016
Why was Shardul Thakur dropped? LOL without playing a single game. #INDvNZ
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— Mithil Wagh (@WaghMithil) September 12, 2016
