Gill Replaces Rohit as ODI Captain

India vs Australia Squad: Shubman Gill has been named as the captain of the Indian Cricket Team for the upcoming ODI series against Australia, replacing Rohit Sharma in that role. This likely brings an end to Sharmaâ€s era of captaincy for the national team.

India is currently playing a two-match Test series against the West Indies at home. The hosts won the first Test in Ahmedabad within three days by an innings and 140 runs. The second game in Delhi will be played from October 10th to 14th. A few days after that, the tour of Australia will begin on October 19th.

India will visit Australia to play three ODIs and five T20Is. This will be the second time that the Men in Blue will be down under this year, as they played the latter half of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in January. 

BCCI has announced the Indian Cricket Team squad for both the ODI and T20I series. While the shorter-format side is not too noteworthy, the ODI side has made a lot of waves since it was announced.

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Firstly, it is the return of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma to the national team for the first time in about eight months. The two featured in the BGT 2024/25. They then led India to a win in the 2025 Champions Trophy. However, in May, they announced their retirements from Test cricket, with these announcements coming only a couple of days apart. 

This meant that the two did not represent India during the five-Test Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy in England against the Three Lions this summer. And with them having announced their T20I retirement last year, they also did not play in the Asia Cup 2025.

However, Rohit Sharmaâ€s return to the ODI side comes with a caveat. While Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill took over the T20I and Test captaincy after Rohit retired from these formats, the ODI side was still led by him. And so, it was assumed that in the upcoming ODIs against Australia, Sharma would captain the team.

However, that is not the case, as Gill, who is already Indiaâ€s Test captain, has taken over the leadership role in ODIs as well.

In other major news regarding the ODI team, Shreyas Iyer, who has done exceptionally well in international and domestic cricket this year, is the teamâ€s vice-captain.

India vs Australia Squad

Here is the Indian Cricket Team squad for the upcoming ODIs vs Australia.

India ODI squad: Shubman Gill (C), Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (wk), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana

As for the T20I squad, it is almost identical to that of the winning side of the Asia Cup 2025.

India T20I squad: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Sanju Samson (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Shivam Dube, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana.

The first ODI of this tour will be played on October 19th at Perth, followed by games in Adelaide and Sydney. On the other hand, the T20Is will be played in Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Gold Coast, and Brisbane.

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