On Tuesday, the BCCI announced a 16-man squad for the first two Tests of the upcoming series against Australia, sta🦹rting from 23rd February in Pune.
The selectors have retained the same Indian squad that had featured in the one-off Test against Bangladesh in Hyderabad. Middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma, who has been away from cricket sinc🌼e Oc🦩tober 2016 due to injury was not considered for the selection.
India’s squad: Virat Kohli (c), Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Karun Nair, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravichandra♎n Ashwin, Ravindra Ja💝deja, Jayant Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Abhinav Mukund, Hardik Pandya