Mumbai: The Board of Cricket Control of India announced the 14 man squad of the Indian Cricket team for the last two one day's against New Zealand on Monday (24 October).
The veteran batsman Suresh Raina has been ruled out from the rest of the matches as he is unable to regain his full fitness after recovering from the viral fever. This means he will also miss the last two matches of the series against New Zealand and he'll have to wait till the England series.
This is the only change in the Indian squad as the rest of the squad is kept same. This means the rest provided to Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhubaneswar Kumar and Mohammed Shami is extended till they return for the five match Test series against England. Also young batsman KL Rahul is also not included in the squad as he is unable to recover from a hamstring injury which occurred to him during the first test between India and New Zealand at Kanpur.
Also the fans were hoping for the return of veteran batsman Yuvraj Singh in the team, but that was not the case to be. He performed well in the second round of the Ranji Trophy against Madhya Pradesh as he scored 177 and 76 in the first and second innings, respectively. He was also awarded man of the match in that match but the selectors decided to retain the same squad.
India's Squad: Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane. Virat Kohli, Manish Pandey, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (C & WK), Kedar Jadhav, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mandeep Singh, Jayant Yadav and Dhawal Kulkarni.