Team India: The Indian team has to tour New Zealand next year. In this tour, India has to play a series of all three formats against New Zealand. In this tour, 2 Test matches, 3 ODI matches and 5 T20 matches will be played between India and New Zealand. This series will be played in October-November 2026.

For which Team India can be announced soon. The dates for this series have not been announced yet. So let's know which players can be given a chance in the team in this series and which players can be dropped.

Bumrah can become the captain of Team India

Jasprit Bumrah can be made the captain of Team India in this series against New Zealand. Bumrah also captained the Border Gavaskar Trophy against Australia and the team's performance was also good in those matches in which he captained and Team India was also successful in winning one match. If Bumrah had not been injured, Team India could have won the next match as well.

Rishabh can become the vice-captain

Rishabh Pant can be made the next vice-captain of Team India. Rishabh's performance in Test cricket is also good and he also played a good innings in the last Test match against Australia, so he can be given this additional responsibility.

Rohit can be dropped

Not only this, Team India's captain Rohit Sharma can be dropped in this Test series. Rohit did not play in the last Test match of Border Gavaskar due to poor form but now if media reports are to be believed, the selectors have talked to Rohit Sharma and he told his decision that he does not see him playing further, due to which he can be dropped.

India's probable team against New Zealand-

Jasprit Bumrah (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rituraj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper & vice-captain), Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Nitish Reddy, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Akashdeep.

Disclaimer - This is the author's personal opinion that India's team may look like this in the New Zealand Test series. However, the team has not been officially announced for this series yet.