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.

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