T20 World Cup 2022 starting October 16 in Australia, India starts their T20 World Cup campaign on October 23 with a match against arch-rivals Pakistan. In recent development T20 World Cup 2022: Big change in team India, top player enters. Mohammed Shami was officially named as the injured Jasprit Bumrah replacement in India’s T20 World Cup squad on Friday.
T20 World Cup 2022-“The All-India Senior Selection Committee has named Mohammed Shami as Jasprit Bumrah’s replacement in India’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup squad. Shami has reached Australia and will link up with the squad in Brisbane ahead of the warm-up matches,” BCCI said in a release. T20 World Cup: Big change in team India, top player enter.
In another major development, Shardul Thakur and Mohammed Siraj have been added as backups or standby players. Siraj replaced Shami, who was a part of the standby players initially while Shardul was picked as a like-for-like replacement for Deepak Chahar, who too has been ruled out of the T20 World Cup with a back injury just like Bumrah.
The announcement of Bumrah’s injury replacement was delayed because Shami had to prove his fitness at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru after he had been pushed away from cricket due to a bout with Covid-19. The veteran seamer, who hasn’t played a T20I since last year’s T20 World Cup in the UAE, went through fitness drills and got a fit certificate from the NCA.
He took the flight to Australia on Thursday and has joined the rest of the Indian squad members in Brisbane where they are slated to play two official warm-up matches against Australia on October 17 and New Zealand on October 19 before starting their Super 12 campaign against Pakistan on October 23 in Melbourne.
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Revised 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, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Shami.
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