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Harshit Rana rules England ODI; Ravi Bishnoi replaced Varun Chakravarthy for the T20Is in Zimbabwe

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday announced two changes to the Indian squads for the upcoming series in England and Zimbabwe following injuries to Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarthy.Fast bowler Prince Yadav has replaced Harshit Rana in India’s squad for the ODI series against England. Harshit was ruled out due to a hamstring injury.Leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi, meanwhile, has been drafted into India’s squad for the three-match T20I series against Zimbabwe later this month, replacing Varun Chakravarthy.Bishnoi was not part of the original squad but has now been included after it was confirmed that Varun needs more time to recover from the hamstring injury that also ruled him out of the last two T20Is against England.Bishnoi featured in the first two matches of India’s five-match T20I series in England. India did not win the first match after it was washed away by rain. In the second T20I at Old Trafford, Bishnoi conceded 60 runs in his four overs. He also bowled three back-foot no-balls and delivered two sixes and four from the resulting free-hits.Varun will now report to the BCCI’s Center of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru for further evaluation and rehabilitation. Harshit Rana will also join him there after suffering a hamstring injury which kept him out of the three-match ODI series against England.Varun recently returned to action during the T20I series in Ireland before playing the first two T20Is against England. The latest injury was another setback after he fractured his left toe during the latter stages of IPL 2026. He played through the injury before missing the T20I series against Afghanistan and Ireland while recuperating in the CoE.Chakravarthy also struggled for form in England, picking up just one wicket while conceding an economy rate of 10.28.Updated India squad for England ODIs. Shubman Gill (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (Vice-Captain), KL Rahul (WK), Ishan Kishan (WK), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, Arshdeep Singh, Yadav BrarUpdated India squad for T20Is in Zimbabwe. Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma (Vice-Captain), Ishan Kishan (WK), Shivam Dube, Suryansh Shedge, Rinku Singh, Harsh Dubey, Prince Yadav, Yash Thakur, Ashok Sharma, Mayank Yadav, Prabhsimran Bish (WK)



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