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Ajinkya Rahane played successful the erstwhile World Test Championship last against New Zealand successful 2021Ajinkya Rahane has been included successful India's squad for the World Test Championship last against Australia.
Rahane, 34, made his debut successful 2013 but has not played a Test lucifer since January 2022.
He has not played white-ball cricket for India since 2018, but has been successful bully signifier for his franchise Chennai Super Kings successful the Indian Premier League.
The last volition beryllium held astatine the Oval betwixt 7 and 11 June.
India squad
Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, KS Bharat (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat.
Top-order batter Rahane has played 82 Tests, scoring 4,931 runs astatine an mean of 38.52.
He was successful India's XI erstwhile they reached the World Test Championship last successful 2021, wherever they yet mislaid to New Zealand.
Rohit Sharma volition skipper the broadside which boasts a formidable batting line-up including Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and Shubman Gill.
Mohammed Shami leads the seam-bowling onslaught alongside Mohammed Siraj and Umesh Yadav, with Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja the spinners.
India are inactive missing prima accelerated bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who is recovering from backmost surgery, and batter Shreyas Iyer, who is awaiting an cognition for a backmost injury.
Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant is continuing his betterment aft helium was progressive successful a car clang successful December.
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