Shivam Dube and Yuzvendra Chahal have been named in India’s 15-player squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup, set to be played in the West Indies and the USA. Meanwhile, Sanju Samson and Rishabh Pant are the two wicketkeepers named in the provisional squad announced by BCCI on Tuesday (April 30).
Pant made a comeback to competitive cricket recently following a car accident in late December 2022 which kept him out of the game for a year and a half, and has scored 251 runs in 11 IPL games so far this season at a strike rate of 158.57.
Meanwhile, Rinku Singh, who had established himself as the most reliable and destructive finisher in the country over the last one year, hasn’t found a place in the 15-player squad. He has been named in the travelling reserves alongside Shubman Gill, Avesh Khan and Khaleel Ahmed. The 26-year-old southpaw averages 89 and boasts of a strike-rate of 176.23 in 11 innings since making his T20I debut last August, but has endured a rather underwhelming IPL campaign this year by his standards. In 9 innings for KKR in the ongoing tournament, he has scored only 123 runs at a strike rate of 150.
Squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Hardik Pandya (Vice Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj.
