ndian cricket squad for England Tests has a new addition, according to a report. The first India vs England Test in Leeds is only three days away, and it seems that the\u00a0Gautam Gambhir-coached side wants to bolster its strength further. On May 24, an 18-member squad was announced. With the retirements of\u00a0Virat Kohli\u00a0and\u00a0Rohit Sharma, the side bore a fresh look. Sai Sudharshan received his maiden Test call-up while\u00a0Karun Nair\u00a0and\u00a0Shardul Thakur\u00a0made a comeback.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another striking feature of the squad was the presence of five fast bowlers –\u00a0\u00a0Jasprit Bumrah,\u00a0Mohammed Siraj,\u00a0Prasidh Krishna,\u00a0Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh. Now, according to a report in\u00a0Dainik Jagran,\u00a0Harshit Rana\u00a0has also been added to the squad. If the report is true, he will become the 19th member of the squad. No official confirmation has come from the BCCI regarding the addition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier, sources, who are aware of the development, told news agency IANS: \u201cYes, after a lot of speculation going around, it has now been confirmed that Rana will stay back with the Indian Test team. But it is yet to be known if he will be officially added to the Indian Test squad ahead of the series starting on June 20.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is understood that the members of India \u2018A’ team who aren’t in the main Test side or haven’t landed a county deal yet might be on the flight back home on Tuesday. In England, Rana got his chance to play in the first game against England Lions at Canterbury, where he returned with 1-99 and made 16 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rana\u00a0made his Test debut on last year’s tour of Australia, where he managed to pick just four wickets at an average of 50.75, with his best figures being 3-48 in Perth. He was not selected for the upcoming five-match series against England as the\u00a0Ajit Agarkar-led selection committee picked Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh, and Prasidh Krishna to be in the fast-bowling department alongside Jaspreet Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, the New Delhi-based Rana averages 27.79 with the ball in 13 first-class cricket games, having taken 48 wickets. He also averages 32.80 with the bat, including hitting a century and two fifties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India, captained by\u00a0Shubman Gill, are aiming to win a Test series in England for the first time since 2007. The five-match Test series, to be played at Headingley, Edgbaston, Lord’s, Old Trafford, and The Oval, will also be India’s first assignment in the 2025-27 World Test Championship (WTC) cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India’s squad (as was officially announced on May 24):\u00a0<\/strong>Shubman Gill (C),\u00a0Rishabh Pant\u00a0(VC & WK),\u00a0Yashasvi Jaiswal,\u00a0KL Rahul,\u00a0Sai Sudharsan,\u00a0Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Nitish Reddy,\u00a0Ravindra Jadeja,\u00a0Dhruv Jurel\u00a0(WK),\u00a0Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh,\u00a0Kuldeep Yadav\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ndian cricket squad for England Tests has a new addition, according to a report. The first India vs England Test in Leeds is only three days away, and it seems that the\u00a0Gautam Gambhir-coached side wants to bolster its strength further. On May 24, an 18-member squad was announced. With the retirements of\u00a0Virat Kohli\u00a0and\u00a0Rohit Sharma, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}