KL Rahul named India for the three-match ODI sequence towards Zimbabwe

India opener KL Rahul has been deemed match and clear from the BCCI medical crew to return again to motion. The 30-year-old will lead the Indian crew within the upcoming three-match sequence in Zimbabwe, beginning subsequent Thursday, August 18.

“The BCCI Medical Team has assessed KL Rahul and cleared him to play in the upcoming three-match ODI series in Zimbabwe,” the Board for Control of Cricket in India wrote in an announcement. It additional learn, “The All-India Senior Selection Committee has appointed him the captain of the side and named Shikhar Dhawan as his deputy.”

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Dhawan had captained India to a 3-0 ODI sequence win in as many video games within the Caribbean final month and had been named because the captain for the tour to Zimbabwe as effectively. No different adjustments have been made to the squad that was introduced final week.

Rahul has been out of motion since after IPL 2022 when he was dominated out of the five-match residence T20I sequence towards South Africa owing to a groin damage. He had then travelled to Germany and underwent a profitable surgical procedure for a sports activities hernia earlier than returning to India and going to the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore for rehabilitation. The right-handed batter had then additionally examined optimistic for Covid-19 forward of the West Indies tour and missed the whole thing of the three ODI and 5 T20I tour.

With questions and issues over his place in India’s T20 squad going into the T20 World Cup in Australia this October, Rahul was named because the chief deputy to Rohit Sharma within the 15-player squad.