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India's legendary wicketkeeper batter Dinesh Karthik opened up on Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma's replacement in T20Is after both cricketers announced their retirement from the shortest format of the game following the T20 World Cup 2024 win. Both Rohit and Kohli announced their retirement after beating South Africa in the T20 World Cup 2024 final by seven runs at Kensington Oval in Barbados on June 29.
The cricket board is looking for their replacement in the T20Is. As we recently witnessed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced a young T20I squad to play a five-match T20I series against Zimbabwe where Shubman Gill was the captain and Abhishek Sharma made his memorable debut in the series with a century in his second international outing.
Now former Wicketkeeper batter Karthik who played 2022 T20 World Cup with Rohit and Kohli picked four players as their replacement.
“First of all, they (Rohit and Kohli) are very hard to replace, but in the XI, I do think there are four choices at the moment. There’s Ruturaj Gaikwad, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, and Shubman Gill. I think Yashasvi Jaiswal will definitely be starting in the XI in T20I cricket,” Dinesh Karthik was quoted as saying by Cricbuzz.
Interestingly, Tilak Varma, Abhishek Sharma and Ruturaj Gaikwad missed their spot in the upcoming three-match T20I and ODI series against Sri Lanka which is scheduled to start from July 27. Suryakumar Yadav will lead Men in Blue in T20Is where Shubman Gill will be his deputy. Rohit Sharma will lead India in ODIs this is the first ODI match for Rohit after ODI World Cup 2023 final. Both Rohit and Kohli have been out of action since T20 World Cup 2024 and now they will feature in the upcoming three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka which is scheduled to start from August 2.
India's Squad for Sri Lanka series
India's T20I Squad for Sri Lanka tour: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Ꮪhubman Gill (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Riyan Parag, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Mohd. Siraj.
India's ODI Squad for Sri Lanka tour: Rohit Sharma (C), Ꮪhubman Gill (VC), Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (WK), Rishabh Pant (WK), Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Riyan Parag, Axar Patel, Khaleel Ahmed, Harshit Rana.
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