Indian Team For Zimbabwe Tour Of 2024: Gill To Lead New Gen

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As soon as the most exciting T20 World Cup ends, the Indian team will head to Zimbabwe to test their future stars. Shubman Gill will lead the side of great young talents, and except for Shivam Dube, no player in the squad got a chance to play in the T20 World Cup. Dube replaced Nitish Kumar Reddy, who got injured in the domestic circuit.

India vs Zimbabwe 1st T20I Match Timing and Date

The first match will be played on July 6, 2024, at the Harare, Harare Sports Club Stadium, and the match will start at 4:30 PM IST.

Indian Squad For T20I Series Against Zimbabwe

Wicketkeepers: Sanju Samson (WK), Dhruv Jurel

Batters: Ꮪhubman Gill (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Abhishek Sharma, Rinku Singh, Riyan Parag

All-Rounders: Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar

Bowlers: Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Tushar Deshpande.

Most of the players in the squad had already debuted for Team India before, except for three players, Riyan Parag, Abhishek Sharma, and Tushar Deshpande. Dhruv Jurel might also debut for the T20I squad, but he has already played three matches for the Indian test side.

Ishan Kishan missed the chance to be part of the squad because he breached the BCCI rule by refusing to play the domestic matches for the Jharkhand team.

Players to Watch out in the T20 Series Against Zimbabwe

Abhishek Sharma is one of the most exciting prospects for Team India, and it was quite amazing that the Indian team did not include him in the T20 World Cup squad after an amazing season in the IPL 2024. He scored 484 runs in 16 matches with a strike rate of 204, which shows how impactful innings he played for the Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Riyan Parag is another batter who impressed everyone in the 2024 season of IPL. So many Indian players praised him after last year, but fans criticized him a lot when he said that he was the greatest finisher of the match but failed to deliver. He scored 573 runs with an average of 52.09 in 15 IPL matches, which was one of the biggest reasons why Rajasthan Royals were able to reach the qualifiers. Let’s see which player will thrive in the Zimbabwe series and which will fail to keep his performance high.