Overview

• Suryakumar Yadav leads a confirmed 15-man squad with Shubman Gill as vice-captain for the UAE-based T20 event.
• Gill missed the Duleep Trophy quarter-final with a viral illness, his bloodwork showed nothing alarming, and he is expected at the BCCI Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru for assessment.
• Standby wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel skipped the Duleep Trophy after a groin niggle on selectors’ advice, while Abhimanyu Easwaran sat out with fever as Ankit Kumar, Rajat Patidar and Riyan Parag stepped into leadership roles.
• BCCI revised logistics to allow players to fly from home cities and assemble in Dubai by the evening of September 4, with the first training session at the ICC Academy on September 5; Prasidh Krishna and Washington Sundar will not travel as net bowlers.
• Sri Lanka named a 17-member T20 squad for the Zimbabwe tour with Wanindu Hasaranga left out, casting doubt on his Asia Cup involvement, as Virender Sehwag identified Jasprit Bumrah, Abhishek Sharma and Varun Chakravarthy as India’s potential game-changers.