Allen added to New Zealand's squad for series against India; Guptill, Boult out

New Zealand Cricket on Tuesday announced the squad for the upcoming series against India comprising three T20Is and as many ODIsThe Black Caps will take on India in a total of six whiteball contests three T20Is and three ODIs starting on Friday and the Kiwis announced a pair of 13player squads for the matches on TuesdayKane Williamson will captain both sides with the T20 squad assembling in Wellington on Wednesday but there is no room for veteran opener Martin Guptill and pacer Trent BoultFinn Allen is primed to face India for the first time after being confirmed in both BLACKCAPS squads for the incoming tour starting in Wellington on FridayThe 23yearold Allen has already played 23 T20Is and eight ODIs for the BLACKCAPS amassing five halfcenturies and a hundredAllens retention at the top of the order for both squads means theres no room for Martin GuptillAlso readNew Zealand name squad for ICC T20 World Cup Martin Guptill set to make record 7th appearanceTrent Boult is the other notable omission from the squads with Tim Southee Matt Henry ODIs only Lockie Ferguson Blair Tickner and Adam Milne filling the pace bowling ranksMilne is in line to play his first ODI since 2017 building on his return to the T20 International arena during the recent TriSeries and last years ICC T20 World Cup in the UAENew Zealand coach Gary Stead said it was never easy leaving out the experience of Boult and Guptill but the team had to keep looking aheadWhen Trent opted out of his NZC contract in August we indicated that priority would be given to those players with either central or domestic contracts and thats been the case here Were all aware of Trents worldclass ability but at this time as we build towards more global events we want to give opportunities and experiences to others The emergence and success of Finn at the top of the order in whiteball cricket means a guy of the class of Martin Guptill misses out thats just the nature of the highperformance sport said Stead in an official statement released by NZCWith the 50over World Cup less than a year away were keen to give Finn every opportunity to keep gaining ODI experience especially against quality opposition such as India The message to both those players is that theres a lot of international cricket ahead and the door is certainly not closed to them he addedThe tour begins with a threegame T20 International series across Wellington Nov 18 Tauranga Nov 20 and Napier Nov 22 before moving into the ODI series across Auckland Nov 25 Hamilton Nov 27 and Christchurch Nov 30The oneday series could see Tim Southee become the fifth New Zealander to claim 200 ODI wickets with the 33yearolds tally poised at 199Tom Latham returns as the ODI wicketkeeper with Devon Conway continuing behind the stumps for the T20 sideNew Zealand T20I squad Kane Williamson c Finn Allen Michael Bracewell Devon Conway Lockie Ferguson Daryl Mitchell Adam Milne Jimmy Neesham Glenn Phillips Mitchell Santner Ish Sodhi Tim Southee and Blair TicknerNew Zealand ODI squad Kane Williamson c Finn Allen Michael Bracewell Devon Conway Lockie Ferguson Matt Henry Tom Latham Daryl Mitchell Adam Milne Jimmy Neesham Glenn Phillips Mitchell Santner and Tim SoutheeIndia T20I squad Hardik Pandya C Shubman Gill Ishan Kishan Deepak Hooda Suryakumar Yadav Shreyas Iyer Rishabh Pant VC and WK Sanju Samson WK Washington Sundar Yuzvendra Chahal Kuldeep Yadav Arshdeep Singh Harshal Patel Mohd Siraj Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umran MalikIndia ODI squad Shikhar Dhawan C Shubman Gill Deepak Hooda Suryakumar Yadav Shreyas Iyer Rishabh Pant VC and WK Sanju Samson WK Washington Sundar Shardul Thakur Shahbaz Ahmed Yuzvendra Chahal Kuldeep Yadav Arshdeep Singh Deepak Chahar Kuldeep Sen and Umran MalikThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever