Ajinkya Rahane to Lead Team India in Zimbabwe

♠ Posted by Abhijit Bangal in Ajinkya Rahane,India-Zimbabwe series 2015 at 5:08 AM

An expected leader came to the fore in the form of Ajinkya Rahane, when he was selected as the captain of the Indian team that will travel to Zimbabwe next month for a bilateral series.

This will be the second-string Indian team where all the senior players will be rested. The big names that are rested are ODI captain M S Dhoni, Virat Kohli – the test captain. Three specialist batsmen – Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina are also asked to rest.

In the bowling department, Umesh Yadav and R Ashwin will also be absent from the tour. The team director, Ravi Shastri will also not travel to Zimbabwe next month. And due to his bad patch on the field with both the bat and the ball, Ravindra Jadeja has been dropped.

Sandip Patil, who is the chairman of the selectors, said that the BCCI does not give rest to the players. That is the reason why they could send a full-strength team to the neighboring Bangladesh even after the World Cup got over recently.

Clarifying on those names that were not mentioned meant that those players were dropped, Patil clarified. Harbhajan Singh has made it back to the squad after playing his last ODI way back in 2011.

As far as wicket keeping is concerned, no specialist keeper has been chosen. There are however, three players who can keep. Those players are Kedar Jadhav, Robbin Uthappa and Ambati Rayudu.