Manjrekar feels that Ashwin will face tough competition from Washington Sundar, who as well has been impressive for the Royal Challengers Bangalore this season.
Kapil Dev on Friday was admitted to Delhi hospital after complaint of chest pain and underwent angioplasty early on October 23.
The Indian team was initially supposed to land in Brisbane but apparently Queensland state health authorities won't allow the visitors to train during the mandatory 14-day quarantine period.
With the two white ball series (T20Is and ODIs) slated before the marquee four-Test rubber, the selection committee under Sunil Joshi's chairmanship is expected to pick a jumbo squad for all three formats when it meets later this week.
Board president Sourav Ganguly had said that the BCCI will do all it can to ensure that the home series against England remains in the country and domestic tournaments kick off at some point despite the fluid COVID-19 situation.
Pant has been in good form in the ongoing Indian Premier League, scoring 171 runs in the five matches he has played for the Delhi Capitals.
Kohli also became the second-fastest batsman to the feat having achieved the milestone in his 271st innings. Chris Gayle was the fastest, amassing 9000 runs in just 253 innings.
India are set to travel to Australia with a jumbo squad comprising 23 to 25 playing members across formats considering the requirements of the series to be played in bio-bubble amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bhuvneshwar sustained the injury while bowling the 19th over of Chennai Super Kings' innings during their October 2 clash here and hobbled out of the field after just one delivery.
England are scheduled to tour India next year between January and March for five Tests, three ODIs and three T20 Internationals.
Gandhi, Paranjape and Singh are completing their four-year-term (three plus one) on September 30, but the BCCI is unlikely to interview the aspiring candidates anytime soon and will instead persist with the existing committee
Earlier on Thursday, Kohli shared a social media post announcing the news of his wife’s pregnancy which immediately went viral while garnering congratulatory messages in aplenty.
Rohit was recently announced as one of the winners of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour.
Kohli has a total of seven double hundreds in Tests, the most by an Indian. The closest he was to a triple century was last year against South Africa when he notched up an unbeaten 254 at home.
Samson also talked about Dhoni. Samson admitted that Dhoni's rise from a place of no cricketing history to being one of the most influential players ever in world cricket is a truly inspirational story.
The playing XI comprises of Indian players who did not get a proper send-off from the cricketing world.
Rayudu was India's first choice for the role having given a lengthy run but the selectors picked Vijay Shankar as the No.4 batsmen for the World Cup tournament.
Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid had decided to give juniors a chance in the inaugural ICC World T20 that year and BCCI had asked the maestro about who would be his choice for captaincy.
Dhoni, the only captain to have won all the ICC trophies, retired from international cricket on Saturday, more than a year after he last played for India -- the lost World Cup semifinal against New Zealand.
Rahul, echoing the emotions of all the players who played under the veteran wicketkeeper-batsman, wants to give a big and emotional sendoff to Dhoni while hoping to play with him just one more time.
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