Team India’s captain Virat Kohli, who has been rested for the three match ODI series against Sri Lanka, is uncertain for the T20 series as well and will decide on his participation after consulting the team management and the selection committee later this week.
“Virat has told the selectors that he needs some time to take a call on whether he will be playing the T20s or not. That’s reason why they have not announced the T20 squad,” a BCCI official, privy to selection matters, told.
“Virat has some personal commitments till December 12. Post that, whether he would like to take rest or just play T20s will be his call completely,” he added.
The national selection committee and the team management -comprising chief coach Ravi Shastri and Kohli – will be deciding on the matter during the team selection meeting for the South Africa Tests in New Delhi, later this week.
The three T20I will be played on December 20, 22 and 24 at Cuttack, Indore and Visakhapatnam respectively.
Team India has been playing non stop cricket this year, and Kohli raised his concern over too much Cricket. He asked for the rest for the ODI series against Sri Lanka, in order to be fresh again for the upcoming South Africa tour.
