{"id":94667,"date":"2025-12-20T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=94667"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:41:20","slug":"india-announces-squad-for-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/india-announces-squad-for-t20-world-cup-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"India announces squad for T20 World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced 15 member squad for the upcoming T20 Cricket World Cup on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Indian vice-captain <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/rohit-named-in-mumbai-squad-for-vijay-hazare-trophy\/\">Shubman Gill<\/a> has been dropped from the squad, and Ishan Kishan has been included to support the upper order.<\/p>\n<p>There was no room for Jitesh Sharma either, as the selectors picked Rinku Singh and Ishan Kishan in the 15-member squad.<\/p>\n<p>Axar Patel has been named the vice-captain. The same squad will play the five-match T20I series against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>India is the defending champion, having beaten South Africa in the final of the 2024 edition.<\/p>\n<h2>India&#8217;s squad for T20 World Cup 2026<\/h2>\n<p>Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel (vice-capt), Rinku Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy, Washington Sundar, Ishan Kishan (wk)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced 15 member squad for the upcoming T20 Cricket World Cup on Saturday. Indian vice-captain Shubman Gill has been dropped from the squad, and Ishan Kishan has been included to support the upper order. There was no room for Jitesh Sharma either, as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":86467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32204],"class_list":["post-94667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-t20-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94670,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94667\/revisions\/94670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}