Punjab has announced its 18-member squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Abhishek Sharma and Arshdeep Singh are also included in this squad. With the arrival of three international star players, the Punjab team appears to be in a strong position, this team also has power hitting batsmen like Prabhsimran Singh, Naman Dheer and Ramandeep Singh. The most surprising thing is that Punjab has not announced any captain for the upcoming tournament.

Punjab’s 18-member squad includes Indian ODI and Test team captain Shubman Gill. Gill, who has not been included in the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup by BCCI. This year, Gill has scored 490 runs in 11 ODI matches at a good average of 49. On the other hand, Gill’s T20 form in 2025 was disappointing. This year, he scored only 291 runs in 15 T20 matches, during which he did not score a century, let alone a half-century.

If we look at the Punjab team for Vijay Hazare Trophy, there are two in-form players in it in the form of Abhishek Sharma and Arshdeep Singh. This will be the first time that Gill will be taking the field for the first time after being expelled from the T20 World Cup squad. Well, Gill currently remains the captain of the ODI and Test team.

Punjab team has been placed in Group C in Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26. Maharashtra, Mumbai, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Chhattisgarh and Sikkim are also included in this group. Punjab will play its first match with Maharashtra on 24 December.

Punjab squad for Vijay Hazare Trophy: Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Arshdeep Singh, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Harnoor Pannu, Anmolpreet Singh, Uday Saharan, Naman Dhir, Salil Arora (wk), Sanveer Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Jashanpreet Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Harpreet Brar, Raghu Sharma, Krish Bhagat, Gaurav Chaudhary, Sukhdeep Bajwa.

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IND vs AUS 1st ODI Live Updates: The first ODI between India and Australia will be played in Perth on Sunday, October 19. For the first time in this match, Shubman Gill will be seen captaining the ODI team. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are also going to play as batsmen. These star players are playing ODI for the Indian team after about 7 months. Harshit Rana is debuting in the first ODI against Australia.

India’s probable playing eleven

Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill (captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj and Arshdeep Singh/Prasidh Krishna.

Australia’s probable playing eleven

Travis Head, Mitch Marsh (captain), Matt Renshaw, Matt Short, Mitch Owen, Josh Philippe (wicketkeeper), Cooper Connolly, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Ellis, Matthew Kuhneman and Josh Hazlewood.

India-Australia ODI series

This three-match ODI series is being played between India and Australia, the first ODI of which is being played in Perth today on 19th October. The second ODI will be held in Adelaide on 23 October. The third and last ODI match will be played in Sydney on 25 October.

Rohit Sharma And Gautam Gambhir In Australia: The Indian cricket team has gone on Australia tour to play ODI and T20 series. India has to play 3 ODI and 5 T20 matches on this tour. Before this tour, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) took a big decision. Before the Australia series, BCCI handed over the captaincy of India’s ODI team to Shubman Gill in place of Rohit Sharma. After this decision of BCCI, for the first time a photo of Rohit Sharma and head coach Gautam Gambhir has surfaced together.

Rohit-Gambhir talked

The Indian team has reached Australia. The team has also started practice before the first ODI. The Indian team had its first practice session today on 16 October on the Perth pitch. Both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were seen practicing in Perth. Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma and head coach Gautam Gambhir were seen talking together. A photo of Gambhir and Rohit together has also surfaced. For the first time after snatching the ODI captaincy from Rohit, Gambhir and Rohit were seen talking together.

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli practiced

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will be seen playing cricket for the Indian team after seven months. Both these star players have retired from Test and T20 cricket. Both these players will be seen playing against Australia in ODI. A video has surfaced of Rohit and Virat practicing in Perth. People are also liking this video a lot. Both Virat and Rohit were seen sweating in the nets on the first day in Australia.

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s first net session in Perth

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— Sanjay Saran (@SanjaySaran001) October 16, 2025

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Shubman Gill First Press Conference as ODI Captain: Along with becoming the captain of India’s Test team, Shubman Gill has also been made the captain of ODI team. Team India has been announced for ODI and T20 against Australia. Along with this, the captaincy of ODI has been handed over to Shubman Gill in place of Rohit Sharma. After becoming the ODI captain, Shubman Gill came to hold a press conference for the first time. The Indian team is currently playing a two-match Test series with the West Indies, the second match of which will be played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi from October 10.

Gill already knew about captaincy

As soon as he became the ODI captain of the Indian cricket team, Shubman Gill has prepared a blueprint for his captaincy career. Gill said in the press conference on becoming the ODI captain, ‘The news of making me captain came during the Test match, but I had come to know about it some time back. This is really a big responsibility and a matter of honor for everyone. I am very excited to lead my country in this format.

Shubman Gill prepared ‘blueprint’

Shubhman Gill further said that ‘the last few months have been very exciting for me. But now I am looking ahead. Now I am looking forward to the future. I try to live in the present as much as I can. I don’t want to look at what I have achieved before or what our team has achieved together. Now we are looking ahead and we want to win whatever matches we have in the coming months.

Want to win everything that we have in the upcoming months: Shubman Gill

Captain Shubman Gill speaks about his aspirations after being appointed as the #TeamIndia ODI skipper #INDvWI , @IDFCFIRSTBank , @ShubmanGill pic.twitter.com/htiVcwXHNd

— BCCI (@BCCI) October 9, 2025

India vs West Indies, 2nd Test

The second Test between India and West Indies will start at 9:30 am on October 10. This match will be played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Team India is leading 1-0 in the series of these two test matches. Now the Indian team would like to make a clean sweep by winning the second test match also.

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Shubman gill forcefully appointed odi captain: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has taken a big step before Team India’s Australia tour. The BCCI snatched the captaincy from Rohit Sharma and made Shubman Gill the new captain of the ODI team. Rohit Sharma is part of the 3 -match ODI series against Australia. Virat Kohli is also going on a tour of Australia with Rohit, but now these players will be seen playing under the captaincy of Shubman Gill in this series. Many veteran players are angry with this decision of BCCI.

Capital imposed on Shubman Gill

The veteran player of the Indian cricket team Mohammad Kaif has completely surrounded the BCCI. Kaif believes that Shubman Gill has been forced to captain the ODI team. Pressure has been made on Gill to take ODI captaincy. Kaif says that giving this big responsibility to Shubman Gill at such a young age can lead to negative impact on his performance.

Why did BCCI decide Gill’s captaincy?

Team India Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar had also given the reason behind this decision after handing over the captaincy of ODI to Shubman Gill. Agarkar had said that whether Rohit will play 2027 ODI World Cup or not, there is no confirmed about this. At the same time, Team India has to play less in the ODI match in the next two years, then the team will not get much matches before the World Cup. For this reason, Shubman Gill has been made the captain, so that he can be fully prepared to take decisions.

The Indian team reached the final of the 2023 World Cup under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma. At the same time, Team India finally lost to Australia, who reached the final without any defeat in the entire tournament. After this, India won the 2024 T20 World Cup under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma and after that also captured the Champions Trophy 2025. But now before the next World Cup, Shubman Gill has been made the captain of the ODI team in place of Rohit Sharma.

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Virat Kohli Instagram Post Fact Check: India’s ODI team has been announced for the tour of Australia. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has made a big change in the team. Shubman Gill, captain of India’s ODI team, has been made in place of Rohit Sharma. A post is becoming fiercely viral on social media by linking Virat Kohli, in which it is being claimed that Virat has posted this after snatching the ODI captaincy from Rohit Sharma.

Virat Kohli’s viral post

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been included in the ODI series against Australia, but India has lost the captaincy from Rohit Sharma, who won the Champions Trophy 2025. A post related to Virat Kohli is going viral about this. It is being told in this post that Virat Kohli shared a story on Instagram after the announcement of the Indian team’s squad, which people are looking at by linking with Rohit Sharma.

Virat Kohli’s story is written- ‘Karma’. It is further written in this post that ‘Life is a boomerang, what you give, you get the same’. Rohit Sharma was made the captain of the Indian team after the BCCI removed Virat Kohli from the captaincy. At the same time, BCCI has now made Shubman Gill captain in place of Rohit.

What is the truth of viral post?

This photo of Virat Kohli’s Instagram story is fake. With the help of AI, a user has shared this photo in the name of Virat Kohli and told that Virat deleted 10 minutes after the story. But there is nothing like this, Virat Kohli has not set this Instagram story. It can be seen from the fact that Virat Kohli’s profile picture seen on the viral post and the profile picture of Virat’s real Instagram account are different. It is proved by this that Virat has not shared any such story on Instagram. This viral post is made only to spread lies.

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