The Indian Cricket Board-BCCI named a 15-member squad for next month’s three-match series on Saturday night. Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav have also returned to the team.

Zimbabwe’s tour ends four days before the start of the Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates. That is probably why many first-choice players were not kept on the team. Among them are regular captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, and Ravindra Jadeja. Shikhar Dhawan will be the captain again. Rohit, Kohli, Pant, Pandya, and Bumrah were not in the team for the last ODI series on the West Indies tour. Even though he was on the team, Jadeja was knocked out due to injury. Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, and Yuzvendra Chahal have been dropped from that team for the Zimbabwe tour.

Chahar last played for India last February, in a T20 against the West Indies on home soil. In the last match of that series, he pulled a leg muscle. Later, he suffered a fresh back injury while rehabilitating at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore. As a result, he did not play for Chennai Super Kings in IPL. Chennai bought him in the auction for Rs 14 crore.
Tripathi was recently called up to the Indian team for the first time for the T20I tour of Ireland. However, he has not played any match for the national team.

India will face Zimbabwe in the first ODI on August 18 at the Harare Sports Club ground. The next two matches on the same ground will be on August 20 and 22. And the Asia Cup starts on August 27.

India ODI Squad: Shikhar Dhawan (captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shubman Gill, Deepak Hooda, Rahul Tripathi, Ishan Kishan, (wicketkeeper), Sanju Samson, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Akshar Patel, Avesh Khan, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammad Siraj, Deepak Chahar.