Flamboyant all-rounder Hardik Pandya and star batter Shubman Gill on Wednesday returned to the Indian T20I squad for the upcoming five-match series against South Africa after recovering from their respective injuries.
Gill, who missed a major part of the Test series and the ODIs against South Africa due to a neck injury, has been picked for the T20 games as vice-captain after recovering from his condition.
Gill’s participation, however, is subject to fitness clearance from the BCCI Centre of Excellence, the board said in a statement.
Pandya, who missed the Asia Cup 2025 final and the five-match series in Australia, also made a comeback in India’s setup after proving his fitness on Tuesday during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match against Punjab in Hyderabad.
Gill, who is India’s Test and ODI skipper, sustained the injury during the opening Test match against the Proteas at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. He was subsequently ruled out of the second Test in Guwahati and the ODI series that followed.
The selection committee meeting to pick the T20 squad took place here on Wednesday. The five-match series begins on December 9 in Cuttack. The other matches thereafter are scheduled in Chandigarh (Dec 11), Dharamsala (Dec 14), Lucknow (Dec 17) and Ahmedabad (Dec 19).
India’s squad
S Yadav (c), S Gill (vc), A Sharma, T Varma, H Pandya, S Dube, A Patel, J Sharma (wk), S Samson (wk), J Bumrah, V Chakravarthy, A Singh, K Yadav, H Rana, W Sundar
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