Bengaluru: Veteran India spinner Ravindra Jadeja on Thursday was named as the vice-captain for the two-match Test series against the West Indies starting October 2, while Karnataka’s Devdutt Padikkal returned at the expense of senior State mate Karun Nair as the selectors announced a 15-member squad that bore no major surprises.

With Rishabh Pant still recovering from a foot fracture he suffered in the fourth Test against England in Manchester late July, a major decision the wise men had to make in a squad that almost selected itself was to name a deputy for Subhuman Gill. The expectations were on opener KL Rahul, who has led India in two Tests, but the think-tank decided to bestow that honour on the 36-year-old Jadeja, easily the country’s Most Valuable Player over the past decade.

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