No Vice-captain Named In India's World Test Championship Final Squad. Internet Starts Speculation

The Indian squad for the June 7-11 World Test Championship final against Australia was announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday. The return of veteran middle-order batter Ajinkya Rahane was the biggest takeaway from the squad announcement for the marquee event that will be held at The Oval, London. Some notable omissions from the squad that played in India's most recent Test series against Australia were Suryakumar Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav and Ishan Kishan. The other aspect that struck everyone was that no vice-captain was named in the squad. Generally, when Indian cricket team tours abroad a vice-captain is generally named.

Most recently, India had named KL Rahul as the vice-captain for the first two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia at home. Then, for the third and fourth Tests of the series no vice-captain was named. Rahul is part of the WC final squad. However, he has not been named the vice-captain.

According to a PTI report, Cheteshwar Pujara might be asked to take over the vice-captain's duty. However, Twitter did not miss the development that no vice-captain was officially named for the WTC final.

No vice captain? https://t.co/LHhxXnEcJi

This is unfair though. Why is he not the captain or atleast vice captain.#CricketTwitter #wtcfinal https://t.co/Gq1Gl99LRH pic.twitter.com/Q7vG1EOZEd

Why is the BCCI reluctant to name vice captain ?@BCCI pic.twitter.com/iNtB7uI3GD

Rahane's comeback after 15 months was on predictable lines following Shreyas Iyer's back injury that ruled him out of the grand finale. Iyer recently underwent a surgery in the UK to treat stress fractures in his lower back.

That Rahane was in contention was reported by PTI in its report on April 10.

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