Bumrah, who is suffering from a back injury and Harshal with a side strain, has been considered fit for the marquee series by the BCCI medical team.
Bumrah, who is suffering from a back injury and Harshal with a side strain, has been considered fit for the marquee series by the BCCI medical team.
A fit-again pacer Jasprit Bumrah and death overs specialist Harshal Patel have made a comeback in India’s squad as expected. upcoming t20 world cup in Australia from 16 October
India will play its first match against Pakistan on 23 October.
Bumrah, who suffered from a back injury and Harshal, who had a side strain, underwent an intensive rehabilitation program at the National Cricket Academy and the BCCI medical team has deemed them fit for the marquee series.
The two players who missed out on a place in the World Cup were pacer Avesh Khan and leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi, who was overtaken by senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.
However, veteran pacer Mohammed Shami was back in the T20 scheme of things as he was picked for the T20I series against Australia and South Africa ahead of the big event and is also included in the four stand-bys that Down Under. will travel to
The other three reserve players are Shreyas Iyer, Bishnoi and seamer Deepak Chahar.
Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh and Bhuvneshwar Kumar will report to the NCA for conditioning related work during the home series against Australia and South Africa.
Bhuvneshwar will be out of the South Africa series while Hardik and Arshdeep will be out of the Australia series starting September 20.
Squad: For World Cup: Rohit Sharma (capt), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh.
standby player – Mo. Shami, Shreyas Iyer, Ravi Bishnoi, Deepak Chahar.
For Australia T20I: Rohit Sharma (captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohd. Shami, Harshal Patel, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah.
For South Africa T20I: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (Vice-Captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (WK), Dinesh Karthik (WK), R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Shami, Harshal Patel, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah.