Mohammed Shami officially ruled out of SA T20I series

Team India star Mohammed Shami has been officially ruled out for the T20I series against South Africa that starts on Wednesday after being unable to recover from Covid-19. The star pacer who was omitted from the initial 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup was put on the four-man standby list. 

Shami's unavailability along with Hardik Pandya and Bhuvneshwar Kumar's rest for the T20I series against South Africa has put Team Indian in a sort of mini-crisis. Earlier it was also confirmed that Deepak Hooda won't be available for the T20I



series with a back injury. 

Shami on the flip side was initially ruled out of the Australia series after the BCCI spokesperson officially confirmed the news on Monday evening that he won't join the team for the South Africa series. 

IND T20I Squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), R. Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Harshal Patel, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Iyer, Shahbaz Ahmed.