India reshuffle their white-ball squads as Rana and Chakaravarthy are ruled out with hamstring injuries
Prince Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi have been drafted in after Harshit Rana and Varun Chakaravarthy suffered hamstring injuries in the T20I loss to England, reshaping India’s plans for the England ODIs and the Zimbabwe tour.
Jul 16, 2026
India’s white-ball tour of England has cost them more than a Twenty20 series. Harshit Rana and Varun Chakaravarthy both walked out of the third T20I with hamstring problems, and the BCCI has confirmed that neither will feature again on this white-ball swing. Prince Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi have been called up as cover, forcing a rethink across two squads at once.
Two injuries from one afternoon
Both problems trace back to the same match, the third T20I against England. Rana felt a sudden tightness in his right hamstring, and scans returned a Grade 1 strain that rules him out of the ongoing ODI series. Chakaravarthy came off worse: an MRI on his left hamstring showed a Grade 2 tear, and on medical advice he has been withdrawn from the T20I series in Zimbabwe that follows the England leg.
Losing both in the same session dents India’s white-ball bowling depth. Rana had been part of the pace rotation, while Chakaravarthy’s mystery spin has been one of the side’s most trusted T20I weapons. With a packed calendar ahead, there was little sense in rushing either back.
Who comes in
Prince Yadav has been the busiest beneficiary. The young quick joins the ODI squad in England and has also been named in the T20I party for Zimbabwe. Ravi Bishnoi, left out for much of the recent white-ball cycle, returns to the T20I setup for the Harare leg, handing India a wrist-spin option to fill the Chakaravarthy-shaped gap.
A tour of two halves
The reshuffle lands at an awkward moment. England swept the T20Is 4-0, a result that knocked India off the top of the T20I rankings and reopened familiar questions about the side’s balance in the shortest format. The 50-over leg has read very differently. India lead the three-match ODI series 1-0 after Axar Patel’s all-round effort in the opener, with the series continuing in Cardiff and at Lord’s.
From there the group splits. India head to Zimbabwe for three T20Is at the Harare Sports Club, running from July 23 to 26, with Shreyas Iyer captaining a young squad that features teenager Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and maiden call-ups for Prabhsimran Singh, Yash Thakur and Ashok Sharma. Prince Yadav and Bishnoi will be part of that group too, and both now have a clear run at pressing a longer-term case.