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Pujara back in Test side, Rahul to lead in

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ndia has announced its squad
for fifth test against England.
ICheteshwar Pujara has returned
home after a successful county stint.
The All-India Senior Selection Com-
mittee on Sunday named India’s
17-member Test squad for the fifth
rescheduled Test against England.

The match will be played at
Edgbaston, Birmingham from

July 1-5. India currently leads
the Test series 2-1. The fifth
Test match, which was sup-
posed to be held in Old Traf-

ford, Manchester last year,
was cancelled due to COVID-19
cases in the Indian contingent.

At that time, the BCCI and ECB
held several rounds of discussion to
find a way to play the Test match,
however, the outbreak of COVID-19
in the Indian team contingent forced
the decision of calling off the game. Cheteshwar Pujara (ANI Photo/IPL Twitter)
Batter Ajinkya Rahane missed
out from the squad due to a ham- IND VS SA T20IS: KL RAHUL TO England to be played at Edgbaston, league match against Delhi Capitals
string injury that also saw him miss Birmingham from July 1-5. India cur- on Saturday, Rohit continued his dis-
the remainder of the ongoing season BE CAPTAIN rently lead the Test series 2-1. mal run in the ongoing IPL 2022, as
of IPL 2022 with Kolkata Knight Rid- L Rahul is named India’s cap- India’s squad: KL Rahul (C), Ru- he was dismissed for 2 off 13. He was
ers. tain and wicket-keeper batter turaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan, Deepak caught by Shardul Thakur at mid-on
The other Test veteran for India, Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant off an Anrich Nortje delivery. Howev-
Cheteshwar Pujara, has made his re- KRishabh Pant for the five- (vice-captain) (WK), Dinesh Karthik er, Mumbai Indians won the match by
match T20I series against South Afri-
turn to the national side after deliv- ca starting June 9. (WK), Hardik Pandya, Venkatesh five wickets and ended a disappointing
ering stupendous performances for Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep IPL season on a high. They end their
Sussex in the County Championship are rested for the T20I series. Dinesh Yadav, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, season sitting at the tenth position in
Division Two. Earlier he was dropped Karthik, Kuldeep Yadav and Har- Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, points tally with eight points.
from the squad for the home test dik Pandya make a comeback after Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh and The ‘Hitman’, as Rohit is known
matches against Sri Lanka. their stupendous show in this season Umran Malik. by fans, ended a sub-par IPL 2022 with
India’s Test squad: Rohit Sharma of IPL. Umran Malik and Arshdeep ROHIT ENDS SEASON WITHOUT the bat with 268 runs in 14 innings at
(Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain) Singh get a maiden India call-up. The an average of 19.14. His individual best
Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas express quick bowler from Kashmir ANY HALF-CENTURY score this season is 48.
Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Chetesh- picked up after taking 21 wickets in 13 or the first time in his Indian Rohit has scored a total of 40
war Pujara, Rishabh Pant (wk), KS matches for SunRisers Hyderabad in Premier League (IPL) career, half-centuries in his IPL career. He has
Bharat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Rav- this season of IPL. FMumbai Indians captain Rohit scored one fifty in 2009 and 2021 sea-
ichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, The selection committee has also Sharma has failed to score even a sin- sons, two fifties in 2018 and 2019 sea-
Mohd Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd named India’s 17-member Test squad gle half-century in a season. sons, three fifties in 2010, 2011, 2012,
Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Prasidh Krishna
for the fifth rescheduled Test against In the Mumbai Indians’ final Continued at next page... >>

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