Mohammed Shami departs to hitch the Indian squad for T20 World Cup in Australia

Even although the BCCI haven’t launched a direct alternative for Jasprit Bumrah within the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup, Mohammad Shami is anticipated to be the strongest amongst contenders to interchange the 28-year-old within the lineup come the world event.

Shami has departed for Australia alongside Mohammed Siraj and Shardul Thakur. The 32-year-old took to his Instagram to publish a carousel of pictures in flight en path to Australia.

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According to a BCCI official, the group administration, particularly captain Rohit Sharma and coach Rahul Dravid, will assess these gamers after which take a ultimate name forward of the event.

“The team management wanted to see all the players before taking a call. Shami was already on standby and after Deepak Chahar’s injury, we needed to send more names as a standby replacement. So we asked team management and they felt that let all players fly to Australia and they will assess the players and take a call on it,” the official advised the Indian Express.

Shami hasn’t performed a T20I because the World Cup final 12 months, the place he was India’s new ball bowler. He has performed solely 17 T20Is since making his debut within the format towards Pakistan in 2014, however has ODI report in Australia, with 22 wickets at a mean of 26.63.