T20 World Cup: Harshit Rana all but ruled out; Surya says 'he doesn’t look good'

NEW DELHI: India accelerated bowler Harshit Rana's information successful the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 is successful uncertainty aft helium suffered an wounded during the warm-up lucifer against South Africa successful Navi Mumbai connected Wednesday.Rana picked up the wounded portion bowling successful India’s warm-up game. He aborted his run-up doubly successful an implicit earlier clutching his genu and walking disconnected the field. He bowled lone 1 implicit and conceded 16 runs.India skipper Suryakumar Yadav said connected Friday that portion Rana has not been ruled retired yet but admitted the concern does not look encouraging."Harshit Rana has not been ruled retired yet, the physios are assessing him but helium does not look good," Suryakumar said.Suryakumar said the squad absorption is prepared to look astatine alternatives if Rana is unavailable."We volition spot which accelerated bowlers person done good successful past 1-2 years oregon bowlers who tin bat. But if you are expecting a No 9 to deed out, what are the apical 8 doing? We volition effort to prime the champion one," the India T20 skipper said if a replacement is required.He added that the squad was selected keeping combinations successful caput and that the squad has capable options to set if needed.

"You marque a squad reasoning combinations, if helium (Rana) is unavailable, past we person capable players to marque caller combination. If we miss him, we volition decidedly miss him. We volition look astatine accelerated bowlers who tin bat also, but nary hard and accelerated rule. We person options," Suryakumar said.India are already managing different fittingness concerns successful the squad. All-rounder Washington Sundar, who missed the caller T20 bid against New Zealand owed to a broadside strain, remains portion of the World Cup squad and is expected to instrumentality successful clip for the tournament.Tilak Varma, who was earlier ruled retired owed to injury, has made his instrumentality and featured successful 2 warm-up matches up of the World Cup.India volition statesman their T20 World Cup 2026 run connected February 7 astatine the Wankhede Stadium successful Mumbai against USA.