Cricket: India announce squad for Australia ODI series - Shubman Gill appointed captain, five big names miss out
India team selection for Australia tour raises eyebrows
Fresh off their 2025 Asia Cup triumph and a commanding victory over the West Indies in the first of two Tests over the past weekend, India are already looking ahead to their next assignment, where they will head Down Under to face Australia later this month.
The Men in Blue are scheduled to take on the Aussies in three ODIs between October 19 and 25 and five T20Is starting on October 29. We will be covering all of the fixtures in our cricket predictions, so be sure to check them out ahead of the first match.
India’s senior men’s selection panel have already announced the squads for the tour, and it is fair to say that their decisions have raised a few eyebrows, especially around captaincy and a handful of notable exclusions.
For the upcoming tour of Australia, Shubman Gill has replaced Rohit Sharma as the team’s 50-over captain. Sharma is part of the team, as is fellow veteran Virat Kohli, but both have been overlooked to lead the Men in Blue Down Under.
The major area of discussion comes from the players who have not made the cut, two of which are understandable in Hardik Pandya and Rishabh Pant, as both players are currently nursing injuries.
Beyond Pandya and Pant, the headline omissions are those of Varun Chakaravarthy (for ODIs), Mohammed Shami and Ravindra Jadeja, all of whom were part of the team that surged to the Champions Trophy title earlier this year.
Chakaravarthy and Jadeja’s absences are the most significant, given their form recently. Jadeja was one of India’s standout all-rounders at the Champions Trophy, while Chakaravarthy was recently announced as the number-one T20I bowler in the world.
India and Australia squads for ODIs and T20Is
Australia were handed a massive boost for the upcoming ODI series, with Mitchell Starc set to make his return to the 50-over squad. Matthew Renshaw has also earned a call-up and could make his ODI debut for the Baggy Greens this month.
India ODI Squad: Shubman Gill (c), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Dhruv Jurel, Yashasvi Jaiswal
India T20I Squad: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Sanju Samson, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar
Australia ODI Squad: Mitchell Marsh (c), Xavier Bartlett, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Mitchell Owen, Matt Renshaw, Matthew Short, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa
Australia T20I Squad: Mitchell Marsh (c), Sean Abbott, Xavier Bartlett, Tim David, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Mitchell Owen, Matthew Short, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa
