The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced team India's squad for the upcoming Ireland tour on Wednesday, June 15. All-rounder Hardik Pandya is named as the captain of the side as Bhuvneshwar Kumar will play the role of vice-captain. The Ireland tour is consist of two T20Is on June 26 and June 28 in Dublin.
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The two T20Is will be played in Dublin while another team will play a four-day warm-up game from June 24 in England before the final test of the unfinished series last year. Newly appointed Test captain Rohit Sharma will lead the side as Rishabh Pant will fly away with the team just after the conclusion of the ongoing India-South Africa T20I series.
After a phenomenal performance in the latest IPL season, Rahul Tripathi finally got his maiden India call-up in this Ireland tour. After missing out on the T20I series against South Africa, Suryakumar Yadav and Sanju Samson make a comeback to the squad for the Ireland series.
However, the rest of the India squad remains the same with only Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant missing out due to upcoming England meanwhile, the Ireland cricket board has also announced their squad just hours ago as they called up two new names for the series. Let's take a look at the squads of both teams for India vs Ireland T20I series.
India vs Ireland: India's T20I squad
Hardik Pandya (C)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (vice-captain)
Ishan Kishan
Ruturaj Gaikwad
Sanju Samson
Suryakumar Yadav
Venkatesh Iyer
Deepak Hooda
Rahul Tripathi
Dinesh Karthik (wk)
Yuzvendra Chahal
Axar Patel
Ravi Bishnoi
Harshal Patel
Avesh Khan
Arshdeep Singh
Umran Malik
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India vs Ireland: T20I squad of Ireland
Andrew Balbirnie (C)
Mark Adair
Curtis Campher
Gareth Delany
George Dockrell
Stephen Doheny
Josh Little
Andrew McBrine
Barry McCarthy
Conor Olphert
Paul Stirling
Harry Tector
Lorcan Tucker
Craig Young