Karnataka and Royal Challengers Bengaluru seamer Vyshak has been on the fringes of the domestic mix for the last few months and was one of the five rising players to get fast bowling deals from the BCCI. He is known for his lifetime variations in white-ball cricket and has lately also taken inspiration from red-ball architecture, taking 10 wickets at 24.90 during the Duleep Trophy.
The T20I team has 3 notable absences, all due to trauma. Batting all-rounder Riyan Parag is undergoing rehabilitation for what the BCCI team announcement called a “chronic right shoulder injury”. Fast bowler Mayank Yadav and bowling all-rounder Shivam Dube were also unavailable due to unspecified injuries.
Mayank, who made his world debut in the hothouse T20I against Bangladesh, has been plagued by constant injuries, including a stomach muscle factor that ruled him out of IPL 2024, having made a debut in a crowd-pleasing match. , constantly. exceeding 150 km/h a year and winning the Sports Player award in his first two games.
There are also memories of fast bowler Avesh Khan and spin bowling all-rounder Axar Patel. Axar was rested from the Bangladesh T20Is because he was part of the Bharat Test team during a hectic season at home, but he is yet to find a park in the traveling party to Australia, with Washington Sundar effectively outperforming him. in that squad. Axar has now taken the Washington park into the T20I team.
With the South Africa tour partly coinciding with the Test tour of Australia, the T20I team will be without fast bowler Harshit Rana and all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy, besides established all-format players including Yashasvi Jaiswal , Shubman Gill and Jasprit Bumrah. and the injured Kuldeep Yadav.
Bharat is scheduled to play four T20Is in South Africa, in Durban (November 8), Gqueberha (November 10), Centurion (November 13) and Johannesburg (November 15).
Bharat squad for T20I against South Africa
Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (Wk), Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma, Jitesh Sharma (Wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Avesh Khan , Yash Dayal.
