{"id":449725,"date":"2026-01-31T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449725\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:54:07","slug":"tilak-varma-to-play-warm-ups-before-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449725\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilak Varma to play warm-ups before T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

India<\/a> batter Tilak Varma<\/a> has been cleared by the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) to return to action and play two warm-up games ahead of the 2026 T20 World Cup<\/a>. He has been out of action for nearly a month following testicular surgery for an injury suffered during the Ranji Trophy earlier in January.<\/p>\n

Tilak will first turn up for an India A side against USA at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on February 2 and then play India’s warm-up match against South Africa on February 4. India’s first match of the 2026 T20 World Cup is against USA on February 7 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.<\/p>\n

Tilak missed the ongoing T20I series<\/a> against New Zealand and India played Ishan Kishan at No. 3 in his absence in all but one of the games.<\/p>\n

Tilak had been recovering at the CoE after his surgery and was making “steady progress with his rehabilitation,” a BCCI statement had said on January 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Allrounder Washington Sundar<\/a> was the other player to miss the series and he is expected to undergo a fitness test in the coming days. Riyan Parag<\/a> has not played in nearly two months due to a shoulder injury and he will play the two warm-up games India A are scheduled to play in the lead up to the T20 World Cup. The second of those is against Namibia on February 6 at the CoE Bengaluru.<\/p>\n

India are in Group A at the 2026 T20 World Cup and play USA on February 7 in Mumbai, Namibia on February 12 in Delhi, Pakistan on February 15 in Colombo and Netherlands on February 18 in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India batter Tilak Varma has been cleared by the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) to return to action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-449725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}