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India National Cricket Team vs Australia Men's Cricket Team: Star Indian batter Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Shreyas Iyer will touchdown in Australia before the entire squad, as per a report. The report by PTI suggested that the rest of the squad will fly out of India in two different batches from Delhi, depending on the logistics and availability of travel tickets.

The date for travel is expected to be October 15 (Wednesday), a week later from today (October 8).

India will battle it out against Australia in a three-match ODI series followed by five T20I games.

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A source in the BCCI told PTI that, as India to Australia is a long-haul journey, players are likely to travel in business class with one set of players leaving in the morning and others in the evening.

Rohit, Kohli, and Iyer might join the rest of the Test squad members in New Delhi ahead of the team's departure.

“Virat and Rohit will touch down in the capital either on the day of departure or a day prior,” a source was quoted as saying by PTI.

The Shubman Gill-led India are set to face West Indies in the second and final Test here from October 10-14.

If the ongoing domestic or international assignments conclude earlier than expected, players featuring in the ODI squad could be given a short break to visit their respective homes before regrouping in Delhi.

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In a significant development, Shubman Gill has been named captain of the ODI side, taking over from Rohit Sharma. Despite mounting speculation regarding their long-term ODI futures, both Rohit and Kohli are believed to have expressed their desire to continue until the 2027 ODI World Cup, even though India will play relatively few 50-over games in the lead-up to the marquee event.

India's ODI squad: Shubman Gill (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (VC), Axar Patel, KL Rahul (WK), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Yashasvi Jaiswal.

T20I squad: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill (VC), Tilak Varma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Sanju Samson (WK), Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar.

Inputs from PTI