Sundar ruled out of West Indies T20Is

The all-rounder suffered a left hamstring muscle strain during fielding in the third ODI against West Indies on Friday, 11 February.

He is the third player to be ruled out of the T20Is after KL Rahul, who sustained a hamstring strain during the second ODI and Axar Patel, who is in the final stage of his rehabilitation after recovering from COVID-19 recently.

Sundar has been replaced by Kuldeep Yadav in the squad while Rahul and Axar make way for Ruturaj Gaikwad and Deepak Hooda.

All three T20Is will be played at the Eden Gardens and will take place on 16, 18 and 20 February.

T20I squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Surya Kumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (vc) (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohd. Siraj, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Deepak Hooda, Kuldeep Yadav