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India on Monday announced their 15-member squad for the impending ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022, with fit-again Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel, getting back in the saddle.
India’s squad for the World Cup in Australia is to a great extent along anticipated lines and have just a couple of changes from the fifteen, who participated in the recently concluded Asia Cup 2022.
Both Bumrah and Harshal had missed the Asia Cup tournament in the UAE because of injuries and their return for the marquee occasion will reinforce the team’s pace bowling attack. Arshdeep Singh and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are the other two pacers in the squad, alongside the all-rounder Hardik Pandya.
Of the two wicketkeepers, Rishabh Gasp provides India with the choice of playing the left-given batter as a free-moving ‘floater’, while Dinesh Karthik has a considerable standing as a ‘finisher’.
India, who start their mission with an October 23 blockbuster against most arch-rivals Pakistan in Melbourne, will miss Ravindra Jadeja however have a like-for-like substitution in turn all-rounder Axar Patel.
Ravichandran Ashwin was picked as the subsequent spinner, behind Yuzvendra Chahal.
The pace duo of Mohammed Shami and Deepak Chahar, middle-order player Shreyas Iyer and leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi have been kept on reserve.
India T20 World Cup squad: Rohit Sharma (captain), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh.
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