Team India has been announced for the ODI series against New Zealand. Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer have returned to the team. Mohammed Siraj has also returned, but the big news is that Team India wanted Hardik Pandya for the ODI series, but that didn’t happen.

BCCI officially announced why they did not pick Hardik Pandya for India vs New Zealand ODI series

The BCCI explained the reason for this. Following the team announcement, the BCCI tweeted that Hardik Pandya didn’t receive permission from the BCCI CoE to bowl 10 overs, and therefore, he was excluded as a precaution. The BCCI posted information about Hardik Pandya on the social media platform X.

The BCCI wrote, “Hardik Pandya has not been permitted by the BCCI CoE to bowl 10 overs in a match. Furthermore, his workload has been managed in light of the T20 World Cup.”

Hardik Pandya is in excellent form. Just Saturday in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, he scored a blistering century against Vidarbha. Batting at number seven, he smashed 133 runs in 92 balls, hitting 11 sixes and eight fours. Despite this, Baroda lost the match by nine wickets. Pandya bowled two overs in the match, conceding 15 runs. He was subsequently removed from the bowling attack.

Indian squad for New Zealand ODI series:
Shubman Gill (captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Arshdeep Singh and Yashasvi Jaiswal.