Tim Southee to serve as captain in the first T20I in Jaipur
After the three T20Is, the Tests will be played between November 25 and 29 (Kanpur) and December 3 and 7 (Mumbai). New Zealand’s head coach Gary Stead had acknowledged after the T20 World Cup final that the team was staring down a “tough and challenging” schedule, with the support staff having to juggle with training the Test players in the morning and the T20I group later in the evening while in India.
“It’s the first time that I can remember that we’re so quickly into another series immediately at the back-end of the T20 World Cup,” Stead had said. “It’s definitely tough and challenging but it is what is in front of us.”
New Zealand squad: Todd Astle, Trent Boult, Mark Chapman, Lockie Ferguson, Martin Guptill, Kyle Jamieson, Adam Milne, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner, Tim Seifert (wk), Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee (capt)