Washington Sundar Ruled Out Of West Indies T20Is, Replacement Named

Washington Sundar has been ruled out of India vs West Indies three-match t20I series due to a grade 1 hamstring injury, BCCI has confirmed. 

The allrounder suffered a left hamstring muscle strain during fielding in the third ODI against the West Indies played at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday. 

Sundar will go National Cricket Academy(NCA) where he will be doing his rehab for the next three weeks. He is the third player after KL Rahul and Axar Patel to get ruled out of the T20I series. 

The All-India Senior Selection Committee has named Kuldeep Yadav as Washington’s replacement.

India’s T20I squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Surya Kumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (vice-captain) (wicket-keeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohd. Siraj, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Deepak Hooda, Kuldeep Yadav