IND vs NZ: Akashdeep, Anshul Kamboj back in Test side

Akash Deep. Pic/AFP

Pacers Akash Deep and Anshul Kamboj on Friday made a comeback to the India squad for the two Test series in New Zealand while Shreyas Iyer was named captain of the ODI side for the last two games with regular skipper Shubman Gill shifting focus to red-ball cricket.

Leader of the pace attack, Jasprit Bumrah, will only be part of the Test series on the all-format tour of New Zealand.

India's ODI squad for the first three games include: Shubman Gill (c), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (vc), KL Rahul (wk), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Gurnoor Brar, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Arshdeep Singh, Ishan Kishan (wk), Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav. For the last two ODIs, Kumar Kushagra, Auqib Nabi, and Yash Thakur come into the squad to replace those that have been rested for the Test matches.

Test squad: Shubman Gill (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul (vc), Devdutt Padikkal, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Anshul Kamboj, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Sai Sudharsan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj

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