Krunal Pandya, Deepak Chahar named in India's T20 series against England
Krunal Pandya named as a replacement for injured Washington Sundar in India's T20I side and Axar Patel in the ODI side for the upcoming tour of England which will kick off from July 3. Also, Deepak Chahar has been added in the in the place of Jasprit Bumrah in the T20I side.
Pandya will replace Washington Sundar for the T20 match and Patel will step in for Jasprit Bumrah in the ODI, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said.
India will play three T20 matches, three one-day internationals and five Tests against England. The tour will start will with T20 series from Tuesday in Manchester.
NEWS: @krunalpandya24 named as a replacement for injured Washington Sundar in India’s T20I side & @akshar2026 in the ODI side.
— BCCI (@BCCI) July 1, 2018
Deepak Chahar named as a replacement for Jasprit Bumrah in T20I side.
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Bumrah sustained a fractured thumb on his left hand during India's opening T20 match against Ireland last Wednesday and missed the following match.
On the other hand, Sundar suffered an injury to his right ankle during a training session in Dublin.
Updated squad:
INDIA vs ENGLAND - T20I
Virat Kohli (C), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Suresh Raina, Manish Pandey, MS Dhoni (wk), Dinesh Karthik, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Hardik Pandya, Siddarth Kaul, Umesh Yadav
INDIA vs ENGLAND - ODI
For four-day matches: Karun Nair (C), R Samarth, Mayank Agarwal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari, Ankit Bawne, Vijay Shankar, KS Bharat (wk), Jayant Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Ankit Rajpoot, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Rajneesh Gurbani, Rishabh Pant