India’s Shivam Dube plays a shot during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup final cricket match between India and South Africa at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, Saturday, June 29, 2024. AP/PTI
India have been struck with an injury blow on the 11th hour ahead of the three-match T20I series against Bangladesh. A day before the first T20I in Gwalior, all-rounder Shivam Dube has been ruled out for the series.
“All-rounder Shivam Dube is ruled out of the three-match T20I series owing to a back injury,” read a statement from the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI).
The statement further read that Varma shall be linking with the Indian team on Sunday morning, the day of the first T20I in Gwalior.
Dube was part of India’s T20 World Cup winning squad, which won the tournament this summer, defeating South Africa in a nail-biting finale.
Varma on the other hand, will mark his return to India’s T20 squad for the first time since the three-match series against Afghanistan earlier this year.
Indian cricketer Tilak Varma receives his debut ODI cap from team captain Rohit Sharma before the Asia Cup cricket match between India and Bangladesh, in Sri Lanka, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. (PTI)
Off the 16 T20Is he has played so far for India, Varma has scored 336 runs, which includes two half-centuries.
Varma made his debut for India last year during the five-match T20I series against the West Indies. He was then part of India’s squad for the Hangzhou Asian Games and also scored a fifty during the gold medal winning campaign.
India’s updated squad for the T20I series against Bangladesh: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Riyan Parag, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakaravarthy, JItesh Sharma (wk), Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Mayank Yadav, Tilak Varma
