Five BIG NAMES that failed to make the cut for Australia tour

By Moneycontrol Sports Desk | October 26, 2024

BCCI announced a 18-member and 3 reserve Test squad for upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy

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The five-match series starts in Perth from November 22 

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KL Rahul retained his place. Nitish Kumar Reddy and Harshit Rana recieved their maiden Test call-ups

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A look at 5 big names who are not part of the squad

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Ruturaj has been picked as the captain of India A for two four-day matches tour to Australia and is not a part of the senior Test squad.

Ruturaj Gaikwad

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Kuldeep was unavailable for selection.

Kuldeep Yadav

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Kuldeep Yadav has been referred to the BCCI Centre of Excellence after the end of the ongoing Test series against New Zealand for long term resolution of his chronic left groin issue.

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The all-rounder has been dropped from the Test squad. Axar was not a part of Test against Bangladesh and was benched against New Zealand as well.

Axar Patel

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The selectors retained KL Rahul and Sarfaraz Khan in the middle-order over Shreyas Iyer. Shreyas played his last Test against England in February and also led India D in the Duleep Trophy.

Shreyas Iyer

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Mohammed Shami was expected to get fit before the Australia tour but he is yet to recover from an ankle injury.

Mohammed Shami

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A swollen knee compounded Shami's woes in his race against time to get fit for the Australia tour.

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Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, and Ishan Kishan

Other big names

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Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (WK), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Mohd. Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar. 

India's Test Squad for Border-Gavaskar Trophy

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Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed

Reserves