Ajinkya Rahane got selected to join India’s team to play against Australia in a big cricket match called the World Test Championship.
The people who choose the players for the Indian cricket team picked 15 players to play in a big game at The Oval on June 7-11. The team will be led by the captain, Rohit Sharma.
Rahane is a cricket player who took a break and didn’t play in a big game for a while. But he did really well in another cricket competition called IPL and helped his team win by hitting the ball really far and scoring a lot of points. Now he’s back and ready to play again!
Rahane, who is normally calm, has been playing very well and hitting the ball really hard in the IPL this year. He has been scoring runs quickly with a strike-rate of over 199 in five matches.
A really good cricket player named Suryakumar Yadav was not chosen to play in a game. He played a different game before when Australia came to visit.
A cricket player named K.L. Rahul was not playing very well, but he still gets to keep his spot on the team even though he was taken out of the game for the last two matches against Australia.
Jasprit Bumrah and Rishabh Pant cannot play because they are very hurt and need a lot of time to get better.
Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj are playing together to throw the ball very fast, and K.S. Bharat is the only player who can catch the ball if the other team misses it.
India is going to play in a big game called the WTC final. They played in this game once before and lost to a team from New Zealand.
These are the names of the players who will be playing a game. They are all on the same team and have different jobs to do during the game. The person in charge of the team is called the captain.