Team India star pacer Mohammad Shami, who was named as a standby for the upcoming T20 World Cup squad after an outpouring of criticism over his 10-month absence from the T20 squad, has been ruled out of the upcoming three-match T20I series against Australia after testing positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The BCCI confirmed the news on Sunday and has named Umesh Yadav, who last played a T20I in February 2019 against Australia, as his replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In its official press release, the BCCI said fast bowler Mohammed Shami will not be able to take part in the upcoming three-day T20I series against Australia after testing Covid positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shami has been picked in team India for the T20I series against Australia and South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, Yadav is in Bangalore’s National Cricket Academy (NCA) where he is in rehab after he injured his quad muscle during his English county season with Middlesex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 34-year-old last played a T20I for India in February 2019 but has been a regular in IPL. He played for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2021 and finished as their second-highest wicket-taker with 16 wickets in 12 matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The former India coach Ravi Shastri was one among them who voices in support of Mohammed Shami during India\u2019s poor run in the recently concluded Asia Cup 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Talking to Star Sports, Shastri had said someone like Mohammed Shami sitting at home baffles him. After the IPL for him not making the cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shami had picked 20 wickets from 16 IPL games in 2022 for the debutant Gujarat Lions at an average of 24.40 and an economy rate of 8 per over. He took the most wickets in powerplay among all bowlers in the 2022 IPL, taking 11 wickets at an economy rate of 6.62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India squad for Australia series<\/strong>: Rohit Sharma (C), KL Rahul (VC), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), Hardik Pandya, R. Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The former India coach Ravi Shastri was one among them who voices in support of Mohammed Shami during India\u2019s poor run in the recently concluded Asia Cup 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":382857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#MohammedShami ruled out of T20I series vs Australia due to #Covid, #BCCI announces #UmeshYadav as replacement\n#INDvsAUS","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1525,125714],"tags":[761,95594,3367,127273],"yst_prominent_words":[60929,21926,3704,32978,87514,5107,87754,81898,85940,88073,81896,4536,4079],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/09\/18132934\/shami.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382835"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=382835"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=382835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}