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Star batter Virat Kohli was connected Sunday (June 20, 2026) named successful India's squad for the three-match ODI bid against England adjacent month, taxable to fittingness clearance, arsenic the BCCI announced a 15-man squad for the upcoming white-ball assignment.
Kohli, who is successful Delhi for a promotional event, volition study to the Centre of Excellence (CoE) successful Bengaluru connected Monday (June 21, 2026) for a fittingness test.
He had suffered a hamstring wounded during Royal Challengers Bengaluru's title-defending tally successful Indian Premier League. The wounded had ruled him retired of the caller three-match ODI bid against Afghanistan.
CoE sports subject unit had visited Kohli successful England immoderate clip backmost to cheque connected his recovery.
The Shubman Gill led ODI squad didn't person immoderate surprises but that young batter Yashasvi Jaiswal has been dropped aft being a portion of abbreviated Afghanistan series.
Jaiswal, who scored 2 centuries successful the series, wasn't picked arsenic helium was replacement for Kohli successful the Afghanistan series.
The communal signifier followed by enactment committee is that replacement subordinate volition person to marque his mode erstwhile the archetypal prime cricketer retired with wounded makes a comeback.
"Against England, determination won't beryllium overmuch experimentation with apical order. Virat comes backmost astatine No.3 and Gill volition unfastened with Rohit Sharma. For backmost up opener's slot, selectors person Ishan Kishan who tin beryllium utilized arsenic a floater," a BCCI root privy to enactment matters told PTI.
Pacer Jasprit Bumrah has besides been called backmost to the squad aft being rested for workload management. Also making a comeback is seasoned each rounder Axar Patel, who replaced rookie near limb spinner Harsh Dubey.
Dubey volition nexus up with the India A reddish shot squad for the multi-day bid against Sri Lanka A.
"The Indian squad absorption volition springiness chances to some Dubey and Axar periodically to cheque who volition beryllium much suitable going into the World Cup. As of present lone Ravindra Jadeja is being looked astatine arsenic a Test specialist," the root added.
India volition play the 3 ODIs against England astatine Edgbaston (July 14), Sophia Gardens (July 16) and Lord's (July 19).
Chakravarthy retired of Ireland T20Is
Meanwhile, spinner Varun Chakravarthy has been dropped from the T20I squad for the Ireland bid arsenic helium is yet to retrieve from his ft injury.
The committee said Chakravarthy is successful the last stages of rehabilitation astatine the BCCI Centre of Excellence pursuing a near ft wounded sustained during IPL 2026.
Shreyas Iyer volition skipper the T20I broadside successful Ireland, with Tilak Varma serving arsenic vice-captain.
ODI squad for England
Shubman Gill (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli*, Shreyas Iyer (Vice-Captain), KL Rahul (WK), Ishan Kishan (WK), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Gurnoor Brar.
Updated squad for Ireland T20Is
Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (WK), Ishan Kishan (WK), Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma (Vice-Captain), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Prince Yadav, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Prasidh Krishna.
