Left-handed batsman Suresh Raina was on Wednesday picked to lead an under-strength Indian team for a three-match one-day series in Bangladesh next month.
Seven senior players – skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Shami and Shikhar Dhawan – do not figure in the new-look 15-man squad.
Varun Aaron, Stuart Binny, Amit Mishra, Pujara, Rahane and Ambati Rayudu are the only players to be retained from the squad that took part in the Asia Cup in Bangladesh. The three one-dayers will be played in Dhaka on June 15, 17 and 19.
The short tour, agreed in February as part of a bilateral deal between the two countries, has been squeezed in between the end of India’s domestic season on June 1 and the start of the England tour on June 26.
