Siraj, Shami and Thakur to be flown to Australia ahead of T20 World Cup

Siraj, Shami and Thakur to be flown to Australia ahead of T20 World Cup


Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj and Shardul Thakur will be traveled to Australia and one of them will be picked as a replacement for Jasprit Bumrah, who has been ruled out of the World Cup with a back injury. The final decision on the replacement will be taken on Thursday (October 14)


The way that Shami has been approached to travel to Australia is a sufficiently sign that he has recovered from Coronavirus that laid him low for more than a month and he is the number one to be the  official replacement  for Bumrah however proficient sources inside the Leading group of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) are not prepared to confirm it that he is the official fifteenth member of the squad.

Additionally, both Thakur and Siraj have done well in the fair finished up ODI series in South Africa and they can't be totally ruled out of the contention. "They feel somewhat wary however Shami is the number one and he ought to come in," said the source. Siraj and Thakur are going in light of the fact that Deepak Chahar, who was to go with the team, is harmed and can't travel to Australia. Every one of the three will leave for Australia on Tuesday night.

In the mean time, the Indian team will play a warm-up game in Perth and will leave for Brisbane on October 14 where they will two official warm-up games, against Australia on October 17 and New Zealand on October 19 preceding traveling to Melbourne for the first game, against Pakistan, on October 23.

Umran Malik and Kuldeep Sen were to go to Australia as net bowlers however that has not occurred on account of visa issues and the two youngsters have remained back and in their place Saurabh Kumar and Chetan Sakariya have went with the side as net bowlers. Sheryas Iyer and Ravi Bishnoi, who were named in the backups initially, won't travel.



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