In the month of November, Team India has to tour Australia for the Border Gavaskar Series. This series is very important from the point of view of WTC final. India has to play an important series of 5 matches on this tour. This series will decide whether Team India will be able to play the final at Lord's or not. At the same time, Team India has not been announced yet for this series, but information is coming out that Rituraj Gaikwad can be made the captain. Let us know the whole matter.

Ruturaj Gaikwad will become the captain

Border Gavaskar series is a very important tour for India. In such a situation, coach Gautam Gambhir's thinking would be to maintain control in this match from the beginning. The first match will be played on 22 November while the last match will be played from 3 January 2025. Many new young players can also be seen participating in this series. Meanwhile, the news of Rituraj Gaikwad being made the captain has taken shape.

However, let us tell you that Rituraj will not captain the Border Gavaskar series nor is he going to replace Rohit Sharma. What has happened is that before this series, a practice match is to be played between India A and Australia A, in which Rituraj Gaikwad can be seen captaining.

Rituraj has captaincy experience

Let us tell you that Rituraj Gaikwad is the same player under whose captaincy India won gold in the Asian Games. At the same time, Gaikwad is also the captain of Chennai in IPL. Under his captaincy, Chennai had won 7 out of 14 matches this year. At the same time, these days he is also captaining the Maharashtra team in Ranji. Against Jammu and Kashmir, he played an inning of 86 runs in 130 balls. During this period, 13 fours also came from his bat.

Rituraj Gaikwad's team can be like this

If Ruturaj Gaikwad captains against Australia A, he will try to ensure that only new players get a place in the squad. Abhimanyu Easwaran and Abhishek Sharma can be there as openers. Tilak Verma, Ryan Parag, Nikin Jose and Sai Sudarshan can be seen in the middle order. Jitesh Sharma and Anuj Rawat can be selected for keeping. All-rounders could be Shahbaz Ahmed and Rajvardhan Hungergekar. Sandeep Sharma, Yash Thakur and Yash Dayal can be selected in bowling. Apart from all this, Sai Kishore and Prabhsimran Singh can also be a part of the squad.