India T20 World Cup 2022 Team, Players: Follow live from Mumbai. India T20 World Cup 2022 Team, Squad, Captain, Players List, Live Updates: The All-India Senior Selection Committee met on Monday to pick India’s squads for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia and for the T20I series against Australia and South Africa at home. Fit again Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel were named in India’s 15-man squad for T20 World Cup. However, veteran pacer Mohammad Shami has been named among four reserve players for the multi-nation tournament. Bumrah, who was suffering from back injury and Harshal, who had a side strain, had done an intense rehabilitation programme at the NCA and the BCCI medical team has deemed them fit for the series. India will play their first match against Pakistan on October 23.
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"If I was the chairman of the selection committee, Shami is definitely in the team. We are playing in Australia, the guy's got the real action, the guy's got bounce, he can bare the moment and he can get on early wickets, so I would have probably got Shami instead of Harshal Patel. Yes, Harshal Patel is a good bowler, no doubt about it, but Mohammad Shami is the right guy, I mean they can say not the scheme of things, he's only for test cricket or one day cricket but we are playing in Australia. That guy has done well last IPL, so Shami is the must in my team.” - says former India captain and ex-chairman of selection committee Krishnamachari Srikkanth
Of the two wicketkeepers in the Rohit Sharma-led squad, Rishabh Pant gives India the option of playing the left-handed batsman as a free-moving 'floater', while Dinesh Karthik has a formidable reputation as a 'finisher'.
Dinesh Karthik will be a part of Team India in the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia.
Ravi Bishnoi and Avesh Khan, who were part of India's Asia Cup squad, have failed to find a place in the 15-member squad. All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja ruled out due to a knee injury.
Deepak Chahar, Shreyas Iyer, Mohd Shami, Ravi Bishnoi as stand-by. Ravindra Jadeja misses out due to his knee injury.
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.
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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.
Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), R. Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Shami, Harshal Patel, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah.
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, Mohd. Shami, Harshal Patel, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah.
Former Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh rooted for Jammu Kashmir's speedster Umran Malik. Malik, who has bagged 22 wickets in 14 IPL games at the Indian Express Idea Exchange admitted that he loved taking the wickets of international cricketers with the bouncers and yorkers.
Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik, Axar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, KL Rahul, Deepak Chahar.
Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravichandran Ashwin, Dinesh Karthik, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Hooda.
Both Bhuvneshwar and Chahar are swing bowlers, it's difficult to pick both of them in the squad. It will be interesting to see who will go to Australia. Former cricketers had also questioned the selectors after they ignored Mohammad Shami for the Asia Cup. Former India coach Ravi Shastri said, 'I think the selection could have been better, especially for the fast bowlers. You know the conditions here. There’s not much in it for the spinner. I was quite surprised that you came here with just four fast bowlers (including Hardik). You needed that extra one… someone like Mohammed Shami sitting at home and cooling his heels baffles me. '
All eyes will be on the fitness reports of Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel and whether they have regained their full fitness. They both gave a fitness test at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru on Saturday.
The ICC T20 World Cup 2022 is set to begin on October 16. A month before the tournament, Team India will also face Australia in a T20I series and South Africa in a T20I and ODI series. The BCCI selection committee is set to conduct a meeting in Mumbai on Monday to finalize the India squad for ICC T20 World Cup 2022 and the home series against the Kangaroos and the Proteas. Stay tuned for all the live udpates