India T20 WC squad – BCCI Selection Meeting LIVE: The BCCI has announced the squad for T20 World Cup 2022. While the selection is on the expected lines, Deepak Chahar has only found a place in the reserves. Mohammed Shami has also returned to India’s T20 set-up but only as a standby. Ravi Bishnoi and Shreyas Iyer are the two other standby players for the T20 World Cup next month in Australia. The team will be led by Rohit Sharma. Barring the ODI squad for South Africa series, the selectors named all three T20 squads. Follow ICC World CUP LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
India T20 WC squad announced, Jasprit Bumrah & Harshal Patel return, Deepak Chahar & Shami in RESERVES: Follow LIVE Updates
India squad for ICC T20 World Cup: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), Hardik Pandya, R. Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh.
Standby players – Mohd. Shami, Shreyas Iyer, Ravi Bishnoi, Deepak Chahar.
India Squad for Australia T20Is: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), Hardik Pandya, R. Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohd. Shami, Harshal Patel, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah.
India squad for South Africa T20Is: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), R. Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Shami, Harshal Patel, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah.
“Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh and Bhuvneshwar Kumar will be reporting to the NCA for conditioning-related work during the course of the home series against Australia and South Africa,” BCCI said in a statement.
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India T20 WC squad announced, Jasprit Bumrah & Harshal Patel return, Deepak Chahar & Shami in RESERVES: Follow LIVE Updates
India T20 WC squad: Big takeaways from India’s T20 WC squad
- Head coach Rahul Dravid and the selectors have decided to trust the process even though things haven’t worked out in Asia Cup.
- Deepak Hooda and Dinesh Karthik retain their places.
- Axar Patel also gets his chance as a replacement for injured Ravindra Jadeja.
- The selectors have gone ahead with an all-rounder option instead of going with a specialist batter like Shreyas Iyer.
- Sanju Samson has once again been ignored with Dinesh Karthik getting the go-ahead as a finisher.
- Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel have both returned to boost India’s pace attack.
- Arshdeep Singh has trumped Avesh Khan to get the nod for T20 WC.
- Rishabh Pant is the only specialist left-hander batter in the squad and hence, he retains his place.
- Ravichandran Ashwin gets the green signal thanks to his experience in place of Ravi Bishnoi.
- India have four spinners in the squad in Ashwin, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal and Deepak Hooda as a part-timer.
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