India squads for Australia tour: Injured Rohit Sharma, Ishant Sharma miss out; big break for Varun Chakravarthy

India squads for the tour of Australia announced

Bengaluru, October 26: The All-India Senior Selection Committee under the leadership of Sunil Joshi met via video-conference on Monday (October 26) and selected the Indian cricket team for the upcoming Tour of Australia.

Team India will take part in three T20Is, three ODIs and four Test matches against Australia and the selectors announced squads for all three formats. Additionally, they have also announced four additional bowlers for the tour -- Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kartik Tyagi, Ishan Porel and T Natarajan - and they will travel with the Indian contingent.

The BCCI Medical Team is monitoring the progress of Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma, who have suffered injuries during the IPL 2020. Both of them have not been named in any of the squads. In the absence of Rohit, KL Rahul has been named as vice-captain of the India white-ball teams.

India will travel to Australia at the end of the on-going IPL 2020 in the UAE. Head coach Ravi Shastri, Test specialists Cheteshwar Pujara and Hanuma Vihari too arrived in the Emirates on Monday and they will undergo quarantine for six days.

The touching point for Indian players in Australia will be Sydney and the Cricket Australia and the New South Wales Government have come to an agreement in this regard.

1. 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

2. 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, Mohammed. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur

3. 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, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Mohammed Siraj

4. What happened to Rohit, Ishant

Ishant Sharma, who plays for Delhi Capitals in the IPL 2020, has been ruled out of IPL 13 with a left rib cage injury and it has been reported that he could be fit for the Adelaide Test, which is a Pink Ball match. Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma has missed the team's last two IPL 2020 match with a hamstring injury and it is not clear that when the Mumbaikar could be fit.