Vaibhav Sooryavanshi gets India call-up, Suryakumar Yadav axed as captain

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi gets India call-up, Suryakumar Yadav axed as captain

The Indies selectors are looking to the future with the Los Angeles Olympics and the T20 World Cup in 2028 and have installed Shreyas Iyer as the new T20 skipper.

Top-order batter Tilak Varma has also replaced spin-allrounder Axar Patel as the vice-captain of the T20I squad.

"We've seen what he's done over last few years, leading different franchises," chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar said of Iyer. "He won (the IPL title) once, had a tougher season this year after a great start. He's seen everything that a captain possibly can.

"His own performances have been really good. He was quite close to getting into that T20 World Cup squad as well, but (with) Surya still there, there was no room for him.

"He in my opinion was a stand-out candidate with enough experience now. This will obviously be a different challenge."

Rinku Singh and Kuldeep Yadav have also been dropped from the squad that won the T20 World Cup squad at home while Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah have been rested

Sooryavanshi has become the youngest player selected in an India men's squad since Sachin Tendulkar in the late 1980s following an outstanding IPL season with Rajasthan Royals.

The teenager scored 776 runs at a jaw-dropping strike rate of 237.30 and will first represent India A on tour in Sri Lanka later this month.

India T20I squad: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma (vc), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Prince Yadav, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

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