Jasprit Bumrah

With India's home season set to start with a white-ball series against Sri Lanka on January 3 but there were no mentions of Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja and Rishabh Pant in T20I as well as ODI squads.

India captain Rohit Sharma on Saturday said that the career of his injured pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah holds more importance than making him play at the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia.

With Jasprit Bumrah, and Deepak Chahar out of action due to injuries, the Indian pace bowling unit's hopes has now on Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel and Arshdeep Singh.

Former India head coach Ravi Shastri believes that despite the absence of Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja from the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia, it is an opportunity for the side to discover a 'new champion' player…

Now that the squad has been announced, it's officially confirmed that Bumrah would lead the pace attack for India in the World Cup.