The Shikhar Dhawan-led Indian team, comprising six uncapped players, arrived in Colombo ahead of the six-match limited-overs series against Sri Lanka from July 13.
The Dhawan-led side will play three ODIs and three T20 Internationals in the island nation.
“India national team led by Shikhar Dhawan reaches Sri Lanka for limited overs series,” Sri Lanka Cricket tweeted on Monday.
India national team led by Shikhar Dhawan arrived in Sri Lanka for the limited overs series #SLvIND pic.twitter.com/vt9NOsTflf
— Sri Lanka Cricket (@OfficialSLC) June 28, 2021
Along with regular skipper Virat Kohli and the red-ball side, currently touring England, Dhawan will have pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
The BCCI had selected a 20-man squad for the Sri Lanka tour which includes all-rounder Hardik Pandya and the spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal from the senior lot.
Young guns like Devdutt Padikkal, Prithvi Shaw, Nitish Rana, Ruturaj Gaikwad and rookie pacer Chetan Sakaria are in the squad, which also has two wicket-keeper batsmen in young Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson.
A day before departure, Dhawan had said that it was “a good mix of experience and youth”.
According to the Sri Lanka Cricket website, the Indian team will be in room quarantine from 29 June to 1 July followed by phased training from 2 to 4 July followed by team training from 5 July.
They will also play intra-squad simulated games for better idea.
Squad: Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana, Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar , K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Vice-captain), Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya.
Net Bowlers: Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh, Sai Kishore, Simarjit Singh.