Out-of-form Virat Kohli and pacer Jasprit Bumrah have been given relaxation for the sequence. While the inclusion of KL Rahul and Kuldeep Yadav is topic to health.

Apart from Rohit Sharma, the rest of squad includes –  Ishan Kishan, KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, R Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel and Arshdeep Singh.

The first T20I shall be performed on 29 July in Trinidad, whereas the second match shall be performed on 1 August at St Kitts. Third, fourth and fifth matches shall be performed on 2, 6 and seven August at St Kitts, Lauderhill.

Earlier on 6 July, BCCI had announced the squad for 3 one-day internationals in opposition to West Indies. The squad shall be led by Shikhar Dhawan.

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Here additionally, Kohli and Bumrah have been given relaxation. Apart from Dhawan, the crew consists of – Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shubman Gill, Deepak Hooda, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Ravindra Jadeja (vice-captain), Shardul Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Avesh Khan, Prasidh Krishna, Mohd Siraj and Arshdeep Singh.

All the three ODI matches – 22, 24 and 27 July – shall be performed on Port of Spain.

Meanwhile, commenting on Virat Kohli’s out-of-form, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly mentioned on 14 July to information company ANI, “Of course, look at the numbers he has got in international cricket that doesn’t happen without ability and quality. Yes, he has had a tough time and he knows that. He has been a great player himself. He himself knows by his own standards it has not been good and I see him coming back and doing well. But he has got to find his way and become successful, which he has been for the last 12-13 years or more and only Virat Kohli can do that.”

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