Delhi speedster Harshit Rana and Andhra seam bowling all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy have earned their maiden call-up within the 18-member Indian staff led by Rohit Sharma for the upcoming five-Check collection in opposition to Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Delhi speedster Harshit is simply 9 First-Class matches outdated wherein he has taken 36 wickets. However with a stellar IPL 2024 season below Gautam Gambhir at Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), the place he took 19 wickets, Rana has come rapidly into the nationwide reckoning and has been a part of the squads in all codecs, though he’s but to make his debut. A BCCI supply revealed that Rana has been purely Gambhir’s alternative
“Harshit Rana has been fully Gautam Gambhir’s alternative. He has been pushing his case for the longest time for the reason that begin of the Sri Lanka tour,” a BCCI supply informed PTI on circumstances of anonymity.
He bowls persistently within the 140-click vary and has a superb quick ball other than with the ability to nail his yorkers completely.
“He was additionally stored as a reserve bowler. Since he’s youthful and faster than each Navdeep Saini and Mukesh Kumar, he has pipped them to the ultimate squad,” the supply added.
Nevertheless, pacer Mohammed Shami isn’t a part of the squad whereas left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav has been suggested long-term rehabilitation for his groin harm.
From the squad that was picked for the New Zealand collection, Axar Patel has been dropped as off-spinner Washington Sundar, who has 11 wickets in his kitty to this point within the ongoing Check in Pune, most popular over the Gujarat left-arm spinner.
Bengal man Abhimanyu Easwaran has entered the squad as reserve opener after 4 back-to-back tons of in Duleep, Irani and Ranji Trophy matches.
The duvet is due to the opportunity of Rohit skipping one of many earlier Check matches as a consequence of private causes.
KL Rahul and Sarfaraz Khan make up for the middle-order with Rishabh Pant and Dhruv Jurel being the 2 wicket-keepers.
Prasidh Krishna, the lanky pacer who made his debut in South Africa final yr, is again within the squad after a protracted harm lay-off.
So far as Nitish Reddy is worried, he has one century and two five-wicket hauls in his 21 First-Class video games and he was extra of a compelled alternative because the seam bowling all-rounder cabinet is naked.
“Hardik Pandya has stopped taking part in red-ball cricket and Shivam Dube’s (he’s injured) bowling is not up to speed.
“Nitish is a piece in progress but when India are to herald steadiness, they want their fourth seamer to be an all-rounder. Therefore Nitish is a determined alternative going by his IPL and Bangladesh collection efficiency,” the supply stated.
It’s understood that it will not be shocking if Washington will get forward in pecking order in Australia for the second spinner’s slot (first spinner can be Ravindra Jadeja) over Ravichandran Ashwin as a consequence of his superior batting expertise which has already been examined in Australia over the past tour.
Amongst batsmen, Easwaran was rewarded for his 4 tons of on the trot however he may be a stonewaller like Cheteshwar Pujara if wanted be throughout any a part of the collection.
Axar needed to miss out as a result of he would have been one spinner too many with Jadeja already within the facet.
Mayank Yadav injured once more , India’s quickest bowler Mayank Yadav is injured once more after a formidable worldwide debut in opposition to Bangladesh as he missed out on a tour of South Africa for the 4 T20Is.
KKR batting all-rounder Ramandeep Singh and Karnataka speedster Vyshak Vijaykumar are the brand new entrants within the T20I set-up.
Dube (again harm) and Riyan Parag (shoulder harm) are again on the Heart of Excellence for intensive rehabilitation.
India will look to defend the Border-Gavaskar trophy from November 22 at Perth.
India’s squad for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (WK), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Mohd. Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar.
Reserves: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed.
India’s squad for 4 T20Is in opposition to South Africa: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (WK), Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi. , Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Avesh Khan, Yash Dayal.
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