Shikhar Dhawan will captain India on a six-match white-balltour of Sri Lanka in July, the Indian cricket board announced on Thursday.Pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar will be vice-captain of the 20-member squad announced.Five net bowlers have also been picked.
The all-India senior selection committee picked the squadfor three ODIs and three T20I series, to be played between July 13 and 25, saida statement from the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
Squad:
Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal,Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana,Ishan Kishan (Wicket-keeper), Sanju Samson (Wicket-keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal,Rahul Chahar, K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy,Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Vice-captain), Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya
Net bowlers: Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh,Sai Kishore, Simarjeet Singh
Itinerary (all matches will be played at the R PremadasaInternational Cricket Stadium, Colombo):