The Indian squad for the June 7-11 World Test Championship last in opposition to Australia was introduced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday. The return of veteran middle-order batter Ajinkya Rahane was the most important takeaway from the squad announcement for the marquee occasion that can be held at The Oval, London. Some notable omissions from the squad that performed in India’s most up-to-date Test sequence in opposition to Australia have been Suryakumar Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav and Ishan Kishan. The different side that struck everybody was that no vice-captain was named within the squad. Generally, when Indian cricket crew excursions overseas a vice-captain is mostly named.

Most not too long ago, India had named KL Rahul because the vice-captain for the primary two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in opposition to Australia at house. Then, for the third and fourth Tests of the sequence no vice-captain was named. Rahul is a part of the WC last squad. However, he has not been named the vice-captain.

According to a PTI report, Cheteshwar Pujara is likely to be requested to take over the vice-captain’s obligation. However, Twitter didn’t miss the event that no vice-captain was formally named for the WTC last.

No vice captain? https://t.co/LHhxXnEcJi

— Sahil 🇮🇳 (@Cric8_Expert) April 25, 2023

This is unfair although. Why is he not the captain or atleast vice captain.#CricketTwitter #wtcfinal https://t.co/Gq1Gl99LRH pic.twitter.com/Q7vG1EOZEd

— Mritunjay Dubey (@mddubey409) April 25, 2023

Why is the BCCI reluctant to call vice captain ?@BCCI pic.twitter.com/iNtB7uI3GD

— Jai Hind (@kannandelhi) April 25, 2023

Rahane’s comeback after 15 months was on predictable strains following Shreyas Iyer‘s again harm that dominated him out of the grand finale. Iyer not too long ago underwent a surgical procedure within the UK to deal with stress fractures in his decrease again.

That Rahane was in competition was reported by PTI in its report on April 10.

Rahane final performed a Test in January, 2022 in opposition to South Africa in Cape Town.

His choice has extra to do with carrying sufficient skilled batters within the line-up as Indian groups have had their share of struggles in SENA international locations throughout one off video games like these.

The 34-year-old, who led Mumbai throughout total home season, scored practically 700 runs however what stood out was how he has improved his attacking recreation within the IPL and is wanting extra purposeful than ever earlier than with a strike-rate of 190 in seven video games to date.

The remainder of the squad led by Rohit Sharma was on predictable strains.

India’s Test squad WTC last: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ok L Rahul, KS Bharat (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat

With PTI inputs