T20 World Cup 2022 India squad 2022: India announced their 15-man squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia on Monday. In the announcement, BCCI informed that fit-again fast bowling spearhead Jasprit Bumrah has been included in this year's T20 World Cup squad after his recovery from injury. Fast bowler Harshal Patel, who had had a memorable IPL 2022, is among the noteworthy inclusions into the squad. 

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Another fast bowling option Mohd Shami has been named as a standby in the 15 member squad. Other stand-by players include Shreyas Iyer, Ravi Bishnoi and Deepak Chahar.

Spin-bowling all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was not named in the Indian T20 World Cup squad after he picked up a knee injury that kept him out of the India team in the latter stages of the recently-concluded Asia Cup 2022.

As per a PTI report, Bumrah, who was suffering from back injury and Harshal, who had a side strain, had done an intense rehabilitation programme at the National Cricket Academy and the BCCI medical team has deemed them fit for the marquee series.

The two players, who missed out on World Cup berth were pacer Avesh Khan and leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi (in 15-man squad), who was pipped by senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.

However, veteran pacer Mohammed Shami was back in the T20 scheme of things as he has been picked for the T20 series versus Australia and South Africa prior to the big event and is also among the four stand-bys who will travel Down Under.

Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh and Bhuvneshwar Kumar will be reporting to the NCA for conditioning-related work during the course of the home series against Australia and South Africa.
Bhuvneshwar will miss the South Africa series while Hardik and Arshdeep will skip the Australia series beginning September 20.

The T20 World Cup begins in Australia on October 16. Team India will play their first match against Pakistan on October 23.

T20 World Cup 2022 India squad: Rohit Sharma (C), KL Rahul (VC), V Kohli, S Yadav, D Hooda, R Pant (WK), D Karthik (WK), H Pandya, R Ashwin, Y Chahal, A Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, B Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh