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India Cricket Team 2016
While a proposed series with Pakistan now looks almost certain not to happen for the foreseeable future, preparations for India’s tour of Australia are stepping up. In the past few days India’s cricket board announced the squads that will compete in both One-Day international and Twenty20 series Down Under next month. And they have also confirmed that limited-overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will remain in place, at least through until next year’s World T20.

There were genuine trusts that India would as of now be tackling Pakistan in simply the savage adversaries' second two-sided arrangement since 2007 and the Mumbai fear assaults the next year. Be that as it may, while both nations' cricket powers consented to a proposed abbreviated arrangement in Sri Lanka, India's administration is accepted to have kept it from proceeding.

Thus, consideration now swings to Australia and what are some immensely imperative challenges for India, and particularly Dhoni. The weight has been on the 34-year-old since the time that India's ODI side caught up the giving up of their World Cup title to Australia with a first-ever arrangement thrashing to Bangladesh in June. With India then losing both T20 and ODI arrangement to South Africa on home soil in October, questions have kept on being gotten some information about whether Dhoni is still the right man to lead the group forward. With an end goal to suppress such talk, the Board of Control for Cricket in India's executive of selectors reaffirmed the dedication to Dhoni until the World T20, which will happen in India from March to April, 2016.

"We named Dhoni as the chief as we needed to end the theories in the media," Sandeep Patil said, by Times of India. "Media as well as players when all is said in done ought to know who will be their pioneer."

It was amid India's last voyage through Australia, a year prior, that Dhoni surrendered the Test captaincy, wanting to appreciate the rest of his vocation in the restricted overs position. So far that hasn't exactly gone to arrange. With an end goal to revive the group's fortunes, an invigorated squad has been uncovered to make a beeline for Australia. The feature choice was the oversight of batsman Suresh Raina from the ODI squad, in spite of the fact that he is in the T20 squad. Additionally in the T20 gathering is all-rounder Yuvraj Singh, who has come back to the universal fold surprisingly since the 2014 World T20 last, and pace bowler Ashis Nehra, whose last excursion for India came in 2011.
“Yuvraj Singh will always remain special,” Sandeep Patil said, reports ESPN. “The selectors are very happy, and the captain is also very happy to have him back. We cannot promise any player whether he will be part of the next tour or the World Cup. We want every player to perform and every player has a chance to come back in the team.”

ODI Squad: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, MS Dhoni (Captain), (Wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Axar Patel, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Rishi Dhawan, Brainder Balbirsingh Sran.

T20I Squad: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (Captain), (Wicketkeeper), Suresh Raina, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Harbhajan Singh, Umesh Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra.

India schedule in Australia

ODI series (all matches begin at 10:20 p.m. EST)

1st ODI: Jan. 11 at the Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth.

2nd ODI: Jan. 14 at the Brisbane Cricket Ground.

3rd ODI: Jan. 16 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

4th ODI: Jan. 19 at the Manuka Oval, Canberra.

5th ODI: Jan. 22 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

T20I series

1st T20I: Jan. 26 at the Adelaide Oval (2:38 a.m. EST).

2nd T20I: Jan. 29 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (3:38 a.m. EST).

3rd T20I: Jan. 31 at the Sydney Cricket Ground (3:38 a.m. EST).