T20 World Cup: Siraj to join India T20I squad in Mumbai today; Rana all but ruled out

Times of India.com successful Mumbai: Mohammed Siraj is acceptable to regenerate injured Harshit Rana successful India's squad for the ICC T20 World Cup, the TimesofIndia.com tin confirm. It is learnt that Siraj is each acceptable to alert to Mumbai contiguous to nexus up with T20I squad earlier India’s World Cup opener against USA to beryllium played connected February 7 astatine the Wankhede Stadium.

Harshit Rana picked up an wounded during India’s T20 World Cup 2026 warm-up lucifer against South Africa successful Navi Mumbai connected Wednesday. Rana aborted his run-up doubly successful an implicit earlier clutching his genu and walking disconnected the field. He managed to vessel lone 1 over, conceding 16 runs.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!"Harshit Rana has not been ruled retired yet, the physios are assessing him but helium does not look good," Suryakumar said astatine the pre-match property conference."We volition spot which (other) accelerated bowlers person done truly good for the past 1 oregon 2 years oregon if determination is immoderate bowler who tin bat arsenic well."But determination is nary hard and accelerated regularisation that helium tin bat, due to the fact that if you are expecting idiosyncratic astatine No.9 oregon No.10 to travel retired and deed a six, past what are the different 8 (players) doing earlier him? We volition see, we bash person a fewer options but we volition prime the champion one," helium added.

India are already dealing with fittingness concerns. Washington Sundar, who missed the New Zealand bid with a broadside strain, remains portion of the squad and is expected to instrumentality successful time. Tilak Varma, who was earlier ruled out, has since featured successful 2 warm-up games.Defending champions India volition commencement their T20 World Cup run astatine the Wankhede Stadium successful Mumbai connected February 7.