Jasprit Bumrah will make a return to aggressive cricket as India captain in its three-match T20I tour to Ireland in mid-August because the BCCI introduced a 16-member squad on Monday.
Bumrah, who final featured for the nationwide facet in September 2022, has been out of motion since because of a again fracture. The 29-year-old’s health can be essential in India’s lead-up to the ODI World Cup, scheduled to start in October.
Bumrah can be main India for the time in a limited-overs sequence whereas Ruturaj Gaikwad was named his deputy forward of his upcoming Asian Games stint as captain. The selectors have opted to relaxation all the senior group members with the upcoming Asia Cup, because of start every week after the Ireland sequence.
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Karnataka seamer Prasidh Krishna additionally made the minimize to the 16-member squad after being out of motion since August 2022 because of a lumbar stress fracture. Prasidh performed his first match in almost a 12 months on Monday throughout a KSCA T20 event sport in Bengaluru.
The three-match sequence begins on August 18 on the Malahide Cricket Club in Dublin. The venue may even host the remaining matches of the sequence that ends on August 23.
India squad for Ireland T20Is: Jasprit Bumrah (c), Ruturaj Gaikwad (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Sanju Samson (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Prasidh Krishna, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Avesh Khan.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com