India’s team for the T20I series against Zimbabwe will see three changes, according to the BCCI.
Three changes have been made to the Indian team for the five-match T20 International series against Zimbabwe, according to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). For the first two games, Sai Sudharsan, Jitesh Sharma, and Harshit Rana have been added to the squad in place of Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, and Yashasvi Jaiswal, who are still in Barbados.Prior to leaving for Harare, the three will go to India alongside the rest of the Indian squad that won the ICC T20 World Cup. Originally, they were supposed to be part of the Zimbabwe-bound squad for the forthcoming five-match T20I series, which begins on Saturday, July 6. Due to a hurricane, Barbados’ airport was closed, making it impossible for Samson, Dube, and Jaiswal to go early.
India’s squad for 1st & 2nd T20I against Zimbabwe: Shubman Gill (Captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Abhishek Sharma, Rinku Singh, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Riyan Parag, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Tushar Deshpande, Sai Sudharsan, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Harshit Rana
The airport is anticipated to reopen in time for the departure of India’s T20 World Cup-winning squad from Barbados today.
Hurricane Beryl caused airports and businesses to close, leaving the World Cup winning squad stuck in Barbados for the previous two days. The team was initially supposed to leave Barbados on Monday at 11 AM local time (8:30 PM IST).
Life-threatening wind and dangerous storm warnings have been issued in relation to the hurricane, which has intensified into a very dangerous Category 4 in the last few hours.
The National Hurricane Center of the United States has reported that Beryl, a hurricane that was upgraded to a category four on Monday, has strengthened into a category five storm as it continues to churn toward Jamaica after making landfall in the Windward Islands.On Monday, the hurricane strengthened to a category four, threatening life-threatening gusts that battered Barbados and other islands.
