Suresh Raina has been recalled for the three-match Twenty20 series against South Africa. The Uttar Pradesh left hander who had played his last match against England at Bangalore on February 1, 2017, did not feature in the next ten Twenty20 matches for India against the West Indies (Kingston), Sri Lanka (Colombo), Australia (Ranchi, Guwahati), New Zealand (Delhi, Rajkot, Thiruvananthapuram) and Sri Lanka (Cuttack, Indore, Wankhede).
Retained by the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) for the IPL-11 season, Raina scored 314 runs in nine innings in the recent Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 tournament.
Virat Kohli, who took a break after the Test series against Sri Lanka, has returned to India’s Twenty20 scheme of things. He will also lead the team in the six-match ODI series in South Africa.
Dropped from the national squad that was picked for the three-match Twenty20 series Sri Lanka last December are Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Basil Thampi and Deepak Hooda.
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