Shami returns to Indian crew after 14 months, picked for T20Is towards England

Practically 14 months after he final performed a global match, veteran seamer Mohammed Shami on Saturday returned to the Indian crew for the upcoming five-match T20I collection towards visiting England.

The 34-year-old Shami’s final outing for India was the 2023 ODI World Cup last towards Australia at Ahmedabad on November 19, after which he was out of the crew for a very long time attributable to an ankle damage for which he underwent surgical procedure final 12 months.

A swelling on his knee then prevented Shami from becoming a member of the Indian crew for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, leaving Jasprit Bumrah to shoulder the majority of the tempo bowling load.

Suryakumar Yadav will lead the 15-member crew within the collection beginning in Kolkata on January 22.

Group: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel (vc), Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammad Shami, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar, Dhruv Jurel (wk).