The BCCI introduced India’s highly-anticipated squad for the upcoming T20I collection towards England on Saturday, January 11. The star bowler Mohammed Shami returned to worldwide cricket after a niche of 14 months, in a significant enhance to India’s preparations for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
Shami, 34, final performed worldwide cricket throughout the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 and the T20I recreation throughout the ICC T20 World Cup 2022. Shami is predicted to achieve match health forward of the ODI collection towards the Three Lions and the Champions Trophy beginning on February 19.
Other than Shami’s return to the T20 setup, the administration named the spin all-rounder as vice-captain for the five-match collection towards England beginning on January 22. The vast majority of the important thing gamers from the South Africa T20I collection had been included within the staff with Sanju Samson and Dhruv Jurel being two wicketkeeping choices.
Nitish Reddy additionally returned to the T20I squad after being snubbed for the South Africa collection resulting from his involvement within the Indian staff for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Reddy was picked forward of tempo all-rounder Shivam Dube who missed the final T20I task resulting from an harm.
Washington Sundar additionally discovered a spot in a three-man spin assault alongside Varun Chakravarthy and Ravi Bishnoi however there was no place for Kuldeep Yadav.
India’s squad for the T20I collection towards England
Suryakumar Yadav (C), Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel (vc), Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammad Shami, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar, Dhruv Jurel (wk).
India vs England T20I collection schedule
22 January: First T20I vs England (Eden Gardens)
25 January: Second T20I vs England (Chennai)
28 January: Third T20I vs England (Rajkot)
31 January: Fourth T20I vs England (Pune)
2 February: Fifth T20I vs England (Wankhede)