Sanju Samson will play against West Indies in the T20I series

Sanju Samson is likely to play in India’s T20I campaign against West Indies on Friday. Sanju, who performed very well in the ODI series, was unsurprisingly the favourite to be named in the squad after KL Rahul was struck down by Covid-19. Following the ODI win, BCCI decided to add him to the five-match series in Trinidad. However, it is still unclear whether Sanju would be picked ahead of Wicket Keepers Ishan Kishan, Rishabh Pant and Dinesh Karthik.

India’s squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, R Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav*, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, and Arshdeep Singh.