Colombo: India’s white ball squad Shikhar Dhawan arrived at Sri Lanka on Monday.
India and Sri Lanka will lock the horns in three ODIS and as many T20is as possible, starting July 13.
Rahul Dravid is the head coach of India for a tour.
Hardik all-rounder pandya shares images in his Instagram story that informs about the arrival of the Indian contingent in Sri Lanka.
“Touchdown Sri Lanka,” he said the story.
Like Sanju Samson, Ishan Kiswan, and Yadav Suryakumar is in the white ball squad and many more young people are eyeing debut for India in the Sri Lanka series.
Dravid on Sunday said he hoped white ball forces were able to provide good performance so they could knock the voters’ doors to call for the T20 World Cup which will be played later this year.
“So as you said, there are really many people in the squad that encourages places or looking to strengthen their place in the T20 World Cup type.
But the main goal for everyone in the troops and in the team is to try and win the series, We have discussed around it.
“It is the main goal.
We went there to win the series, hopefully, people got the chance to do a good show on our journey trying to win the series, and knocked the voter door, “Dravid said while replying to Ani’s query during a pre-departure press conference on Sunday.
For Series limited to Sri Lanka, Dhawan will wear captain’s hat.
Talking about leading the party for the first time, Dhawan said: “So it was a great honor for me to be the captain of the Indian team.
“” I am looking forward to him, I have played under the coaching of Rahul Dravid once, I was Captain India A at that time, we had played against Bangladesh.
I feel we think together, we look forward to the series, we will look for to build positive things and there must be a very happy environment where boys can express themselves and we get the best of them, “he added.