Kishan replaces injured Rahul in India Test squad for WTC ultimate
Ishan Kishan has changed the injured KL Rahul in India’s squad for the World Test Championship (WTC) ultimate towards Australia at The Oval in June. Rahul, the captain of Lucknow Super Giants, had been sidelined from the remainder of the IPL and the WTC ultimate with a thigh injury. A call on Jaydev Unadkat, who had damage his left shoulder whereas coaching within the IPL, for the WTC ultimate shall be taken later, in response to a BCCI assertion.
Kishan is uncapped in Test cricket, however has performed 14 ODIs and 27 T20Is up to now, and was additionally a part of the Test squad for the house sequence towards Australia earlier than the IPL. He is the second wicketkeeper in India’s WTC squad behind KS Bharat, who had not too long ago made his Test debut towards Australia in February this 12 months within the absence of Rishabh Pant. He performed six innings within the 4 Tests for a complete of 101 runs with a excessive rating of 44.
Kishan has performed 48 first-class matches up to now for 2985 runs at a median of 38.76 with six a whole bunch, and within the latest Ranji Trophy season he performed simply two video games and scored 180 runs whereas averaging 45.
As Rahul had introduced earlier on social media, he’ll now endure surgical procedure and can subsequently report back to the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru for rehab.
Rahul’s LSG team-mate Unadkat can be out of the rest of the IPL with an damage. He then travelled to Mumbai for scans and visited one of many specialist consultants appointed by the BCCI.
Umesh Yadav has additionally joined the damage checklist, having damage his hamstring throughout Kolkata Knight Riders’ recreation towards Royal Challengers Bangalore on April 26. The quick bowler has not performed for KKR since, however has resumed “low-intensity bowling”. The BCCI’s medical staff is working with KKR’s workers to get Umesh match and is “closely monitoring” his progress.
In the injury-enforced absence of each Rahul and Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane would possibly return to India’s XI, having final performed a in Test in January 2022. Former India coach Ravi Shastri had backed Rahane’s inclusion in the squad, underlining Rahane’s want to play Ranji Trophy as one of many key differentiators. Rahane’s return means his county championship debut with Leicestershire is prone to be pushed again after initially committing to play eight red-ball video games and all the 50-overs competitors. Cheteshwar Pujara is already within the UK and is in wonderful kind, having scored three centuries in 4 video games for Sussex in county cricket.
Meanwhile, batters Suryakumar Yadav and Ruturaj Gaikwad, and seamer Mukesh Kumar have been named as reserve gamers for the WTC ultimate. Among them, solely Suryakumar has Test-match expertise, having made his debut towards Australia in Nagpur in February.
India squad for WTC ultimate: Rohit Sharma (capt.), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, KS Bharat (wk), R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Kishan (wk)
Standby gamers: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Mukesh Kumar, Suryakumar Yadav