T20I series against SriLanka due to injury.

India have suffered a double blow on the eve of their T20I series against Sri Lanka, with a pair of key players ruled out for the entire series.

Seamer Deepak Chahar and batter Suryakumar Yadav picked up fresh injuries during the third and final T20I against the West Indies in Kolkata on Sunday and will be given time to recover.

Deepak hurt his quad while bowling against the West Indies, while Suryakumar was unlucky to suffer a hairline fracture while fielding during the same match.

India's 3-0 clean sweep over the West Indies catapulted them above England to become the top ranked T20 team in the world, but they will need to defeat Sri Lanka to hang on to that ranking.

The first of three T20Is will be held in Lucknow on Friday.

India's T20 squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Avesh Khan.

against Sri Lanka, spoke on a variety of topics including becoming India's all-format skipper, Suryakumar Yadav's injury and the selection of Sanju Samson.

Rohit was recently appointed the skipper of the Indian Test team making him the captain of the side across all formats. Speaking on being given the opportunity, Rohit said that he was looking forward to the challenges of captaining India in both white-ball and red-ball cricket. 

"It’s a huge honour and a great feeling to be captaining India in all three forms. I have a lot of challenges to look forward to now. Once the opportunity came through, I was glad and very happy to be captaining the team. We have got a solid bunch of guys and looking forward to leading them on the park and seeing what we can create on the field." 

Rohit also addressed concerns about his own workload management, with the ICC Men's T20 World Cup coming up, adding, "I'm very clear in my mind on how I want to take this forward. Obviously, managing the workload, not just me, but for everyone will be the key moving forward. 

"We've already seen a number of injuries within our squad. So we just have to be very careful with what we do with individuals and how we rotate them and how we give them the break time that they need. But as far as I'm concerned, at the moment, there are no issues. Looking forward to play all the games." 

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Ahead of the series against Sri Lanka, India were dealt a huge blow as Suryakumar Yadav was ruled out with a hairline fracture. Yadav was in devastating touch during the series against West Indies, scoring 107 runs at a strike-rate of 194.55. The Indian skipper claimed that his absence would be a 'setback' for the side. 

"Surya’s injury obviously is a setback. He was in great form as you saw in the last series; he was the Man of the Series. But there are so many players who are waiting to get an opportunity. I’ll be more than happy for them to come in and fill in.

"At the same time, I’m a little bit sad for Surya. He was in great form and I’m sure, he wanted to carry it further. But you can’t really help with injuries. It was a freak injury; he was standing at the slips, got hit on his thumb. Those things you can’t control. I wish him a speedy recovery and wish he returns soon."