Watch: Team India departs for Australia in customized PPE kits

The Indian squad for the Australian tour departed from the Dubai International Airport on Wednesday. The big suspire was the customized PPE kits that the parent body, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had made available to the players.

The BCCI notified about the customized PPE kits through a tweet and asked fans for reactions. “Customised PPE Kits✔️Customised Mask☑️ How cool is this new look! #TeamIndi,” it tweeted.


Apart from the BCCI, players individually too seemed to be happy flaunting the new PPPE kits and posted their photos in it, while waiting at the airport and inside the plane as well.




Team India’s tour of Down under is a long one which would start with a mandatory 14-day quarantine where players would be allowed to train, but not all of them together, rather in separate big bubbles, most probably comprising of 4-6 members.  The team would play its first tour game- the first ODI of the three-match ODI series in Sydney. The second match would also be played there before moving to Canberra for the remaining one ODI and first of the three T20Is and then returning back to Sydney to complete the T20I series.    

The four Tests beginning 17 December will all be played at traditional venues of Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.  

While Virat Kohli has been granted paternity leave for the last three Test matches, Rohit Sharma would be unavailable for the limited-overs series. However, the biggest heartbreak was for mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who has been ruled out of the T20I series owing to a shoulder injury. The selectors have named T Natarajan as a replacement.


Team India T20I squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul (vice-captain and wicket-keeper), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, T Natarajan.

Team India ODI squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul (vice-captain & wicket-keeper), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur, Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper).

Team India Test squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha

Powered by Froala Editor

Discover more
Top Stories
news

Windies stripped off training rights after breaking covid-19 isolation norms

The Windies team in New Zealand have been stripped of their rights to train further during their managed isolation period. This decision has been taken by the New Zealand Health Ministry as it found certain players indulging in breach of the managed isolation’s code of conduct as set by the ministry for all visiting teams. The Ministry, on the evidence of CCTV footage from the Windies isolation facility in a Christchurch hotel, said that the team cannot train further till their managed isolation period ends on Thursday. The Caribbean team has had to go through 14 days of managed isolation on arrival in New Zealand, 12 days of which have passed. Speaking on the issue Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health, New Zealand said, “As with other sports teams that have come to New Zealand, the West Indies cricket team were given certain exemptions from the managed isolation rules which apply to everyone else,”. “It is a privilege to come here but in return, they have to stick to the rules. Keeping covid-19 out of our communities and keeping our staff safe depends on it. They didn’t do that, despite agreeing to abide by the parameters of the exemption,” he added. Players were due to be tested on Wednesday for the second time since their arrival in New Zealand. If things go as per plan, they would be released by Friday and move to Queenstown where they play New Zealand A in two practice games. The tour however begins with three Twenty20 internationals, starting with the first one in Auckland on November 27, and later on, two tests beginning on Dec. 3, would be played in Hamilton and Wellington respectively. Both New Zealand Cricket and Cricket West Indies have said that they are aware of the breaches and are in full support of the steps taken by the New Zealand Health Ministry. “NZ Cricket will continue working with the West Indies team and management and relevant government agencies to ensure there is no repeat of these violations,” a spokesperson of NZC told. While CWI in a press release reiterated that it is ‘in full support of the New Zealand Ministry of Health’s position.’