Pant, Bumrah named in India Test squad for New Zealand tour

Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant was on Friday named in India's Test squad for two matches in New Zealand next month, but will need fitness clearance to play as he is recovering from a side strain.

Pant, a left-hand batter, was ruled out of the first two unofficial Tests of India A tour of New Zealand later this month due to a left side strain.

Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah is also part of the 16-member squad, led by Shubman Gill, for the matches starting with the opener in Wellington on November 19.

Bumrah is not part of the preceding five ODI matches, the squads for which were also announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

Gill will be captain for the first three matches starting in Auckland on November 4 and then Shreyas Iyer will take over as leader in the final two.

Gill and KL Rahul have not been named for ODI four and five.

Veterans Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are part of all the five 50-over matches.

India's tour will begin with five T20 matches, the squads for which was announced earlier.

ODI squad for the first three ODIs:

Shubman Gill (capt), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (vice-capt), KL Rahul (wk), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Gurnoor Brar, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Arshdeep Singh, Ishan Kishan (wk), Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna*, Kuldeep Yadav

ODI squad for fourth and fifth ODIs: Shreyas Iyer (capt), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan (wk, vice-capt), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Naman Dhir, Auqib Nabi, Gurnoor Brar, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Arshdeep Singh, Kumar Kushagra (wk), Mohammed Siraj, Yash Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav

Test squad: Shubman Gill (capt), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul (vice-capt), Devdutt Padikkal, Rishabh Pant (wk)*, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Anshul Kamboj, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Sai Sudharsan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj

-- *Subject to fitness clearance