KL Rahul and Kuldeep Yadav are back in the team provided both pass the fitness test. Kuldeep suffered a hand injury in the home series against South Africa in June. Ravichandran Ashwin has also made a comeback in the 18-man squad. He played the last T20 match in November last year.
Kohli, who has been battling poor form, has sought rest from the entire limited overs tour of West Indies. Star leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has also been rested. Captain Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya will not be part of the ODI series but will make a comeback in T20Is. Dhawan will be the captain of the ODI team.
Leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi and fast bowler Avesh Khan have retained their place in the T20 squad. At the same time, Arshdeep Singh, who was not a part of the Indian team in the last two T20s against England, has also returned to the team.
Indian team:
Dhawan, Ishan Kishan, KL Rahul (if fit), Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, R Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav (if fit) ), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh.
