The Board of Control for Cricket in India shared a tweet and informed about the changes in the squad. While Rohit has been ruled out of the test, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and pacer Mohammed Shami have been ruled out of the series.
Amid the ongoing military standoff with China, India is further strengthening its surveillance capabilities all along the Line of Actual Control from Eastern Ladakh to Sikkim with the deployment of new drone units of unmanned aerial vehicles which can carry out missions for up to 48 hours
Riding on the confidence from a good show at the CWG, where the team won a Bronze Medal, the Savita-led squad will be vying to start their campaign with a win.
Although the men's Hundred's retention rules for 2023 have not yet been made public, it is believed that clubs will have the same ability to keep a sizable number of their squads from the previous season as they did in 2022.
At Dakar 2023, the team will have a rider squad of four members - Franco Caimi, Joaquim Rodrigues, Ross Branch and Sebastian Buhler - two of them being Dakar stage winners.
Easwaran is already in Sylhet, where he led India A during their two-match red-ball trip against Bangladesh A. He made scores of 141 and 157 in his two innings against a line-up that included several Test players.
A veteran of two Olympic Games, Singh is quite impressed with the Indian men's hockey team's performances in the recent past. And he believes that the squad has the ability to do well in the coming years as well.