The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) declared a 15-member squad on Monday for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia.
The Rohit Sharma-led team will include Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel who missed out on the recently concluded Asia Cup. Bumrah, was suffering from back injury and Harshal, who had a side strain, had done an intense rehabilitation programme at the National Cricket Academy anwhod the BCCI medical team has deemed them fit for the marquee series.
The two players, who missed out on World Cup berth were pacer Avesh Khan and leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi, who was pipped by senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. Sanju Samson who wasn't included in the Asia Cup squad, missed the cut yet again.
Ravindra Jadeja's absence will also be a point of concern for the team. He was already ruled out of the tournament owing to injury.
The likes of Mohammad Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Deepak Chahar and Shreyas Iyer were named as the standby players.
Full squad: 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.
Apart from the World Cup team, the teams for T20Is against Australia and South Africa have also been declared.
"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 stated.
The World Cup is scheduled to begin in October with the warm-up matches starting on 10th October.
The main tournament will begin on October 16, when Sri Lanka will lock horns with Namibia. India will play their first match against Pakistan at the MCG on October 23.
The final will be played on the 13th of November.
The warm-up matches will be held in Melbourne and Brisbane for all 16 teams. The First Round teams will play their warm-up games between the 10th of October and the 13th of October. On the other hand, the teams that qualified to play the Super 12 round directly will play their warm-up games in Brisbane on 17th October and 19th of October.
