T20 WC: Harshit Rana ruled out of tournament; Siraj named replacement

NEW DELHI: India accelerated bowler Harshit Rana has been ruled retired of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, the BCCI said connected Friday. Rana suffered a genu wounded during India’s warm-up lucifer against South Africa successful Navi Mumbai connected February 4, 2026.The BCCI said Rana was assessed by a specializer and underwent scans, pursuing which the aesculapian squad declared him unfit for the tournament. Mohammed Siraj has been named arsenic his replacement successful the squad.Earlier successful the day, India skipper Suryakumar Yadav had said Rana was "not looking good".Rana was injured during India’s T20 World Cup warm-up crippled against South Africa connected Wednesday. He pulled retired of his run-up doubly successful an implicit earlier holding his genu and leaving the field.

He bowled conscionable 1 implicit and gave distant 16 runs.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.India’s updated squad: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (WK), Ishan Kishan (WK), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel (VC), Rinku Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy, Washington Sundar, Mohd Siraj