India's Mohammed Shami (left) talks with bowling manager Morné Morkel during the signifier league up of their archetypal T20 lucifer against England, successful Kolkata. (AP Photo)
Mohammed Shami’s comeback for the Indian cricket squad volition person to wait. The pacer was not picked successful the Playing Xi by the Indian cricket squad deliberation vessel for the archetypal IND vs ENG T20 astatine the Eden Gardens successful Kolkata.
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India’s Playing XI
Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Reddy, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakravarthy, Arshdeep Singh.
Shami past played for the Indian cricket squad successful the 2023 World Cup last against Australia successful Ahmedabad.
Shami had been sidelined due to the fact that of an ankle injury, which required surgery.
The 34-year-old Shami had returned to enactment successful the Ranji Trophy, too besides playing successful the T20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and the 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy for Bengal.
He had been a notable omission from India’s high-octane five-Test bid successful Australia due to the fact that helium had reportedly expereinced swelling of the genu connected his instrumentality to home cricket.
The Indian Express had earlier reported that the nationalist selectors met successful Mumbai precocious and lone aft receiving a fittingness update connected Shami, had they picked the accelerated bowler for the shortest format bid against England.
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