India have brought in veteran seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar for their five-match Twenty 20 series against the Black Caps in New Zealand later this month.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old medium pacer has not been selected for India since their last tour of New Zealand in late 2022.<\/p>\n
Varun Chakravarthy also returns to the squad after recovering from a side strain, leaving fellow leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi, who is playing in India’s current T20 series against West Indies, out of the squad.<\/p>\n
Bhuvneshwar owes his return to the side to his strong IPL performances for champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru this year. He took 28 wickets.<\/p>\n
He has twice toured New Zealand, in 2019 and 2022. He took one wicket for 47 over the two T20 matches on the latter tour.<\/p>\n
In all, he has played in 87 T20s, taking 90 wickets at an average of 23.1 and with an economy rate of 6.96.<\/p>\n
Shreyas Iyer, who will captain the side, hit a century overnight as India beat the West Indies by eight wickets in the first Twenty20 of their five-match series in Lucknow.<\/p>\n
New Zealand crowds will miss out of seeing talented allrounder Hardik Pandya, who is not available for the tour because of a shin injury, while fast bowler Harshit Rana is also out injured.<\/p>\n
India’s ODI and Test squads are yet to be named.<\/p>\n
India squad for New Zealand T20s:<\/p>\n
Shreyas Iyer (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma (vice-captain), Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Naman Dhir, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav<\/p>\n
1st T20, 22 October, 8pm, Hagley Oval, Christchurch<\/p>\n
2nd T20, 24 October, 8pm, Hagley Oval, Christchurch<\/p>\n
3rd T20, 27 October, 8pm, Hnry Stadium, Wellington<\/p>\n
4th T20, 30 October, 8pm, Eden Park, Auckland<\/p>\n
5th T20, 1 November, 8pm, Seddon Park, Hamilton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India have brought in veteran seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar for their five-match Twenty 20 series against the Black Caps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-622652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}