AHMEDABAD: Suryakumar Yadav will be the captain, while National Cricket Academy head VVS Laxman will be the coach of the Indian team for the five-match Twenty 20 series against Australia, which will kick off in Visakhapatnam on November 23 and conclude in Bangalore on December 3, TOI has learnt. The squad is yet to be announced officially by the BCCI.
Ranked as the No 1 batsman in T20Is for a while now, 'SKY' was chosen as the captain for this series -this is the first time he will be captaining India-after it became clear that star all-rounder Hardik Pandya, who suffered a bad ankle injury his during the World Cup, is not likely to return to action the next couple of months. Paceman Prasidh Krishna, who replaced Pandya in the World Cup but didn’t get a game, has been included in the squad for this series, while left-arm spinning all-rounder Axar Patel, who missed the World Cup due to a quadriceps injury, is set to return to the side.
