After Ruturaj injury, Agarwal added to T20 squad as back up

Mayank Agarwal has been added to the Indian Twenty20 group that arrived at Dharamsala on Friday (February 25). He has been named as a swap for Ruturaj Gaikwad, who has been governed out of the leftover two T20 games, to be played over the course of the following two days, one after the other. India lead the three-match series against Sri Lanka 1-0.

The Indian group the executives had put out a delivery before the primary game in Lucknow on Gaikwad (25), who was inaccessible for determination in view of agony in his right wrist. "Ruturaj Gaikwad griped of torment in his right wrist, which is influencing his batting. He was inaccessible for determination for the main T20I. The BCCI Medical Team is looking at him," a representative for the Indian group had said.

As indicated by sources in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Agarwal (31) must be hurried to Dharamsala in light of the fact that he was accessible to join the crew at a short notification. The Indian Test players are right now isolating in Chandigarh and Agarwal is one among them. "It was easy to send Agarwal in on the grounds that it could without much of a stretch an air pocket to-bubble move. He was in Chandigarh and he was quickly surged," a source told Cricbuzz.

Ruturaj is the third withdrawal from the current crew after the ways out of Suryakumar Yadav and Deepak Chahar. The two endured wounds during the last Twenty20 game against West Indies at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata and couldn't come to the group in the wake of being at first picked. The selectors didn't name substitutes for them since there were 16 different players to pick the XI from. After Ruturaj's physical issue, the selectors and the group the executives would have rather not take a risk.

In the interim, it is discovered that R Ashwin, who was chosen in the Test group with a proviso over his wellness, is headed to recuperation and is relied upon to be prepared for the primary Test against Sri Lanka, what begins in Mohali on March 3. While declaring the Test crew for the two-match series, the selectors had said Ashwin's choice is 'dependent upon wellness freedom.'

India T20 International crew: Rohit Sharma (commander), Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Jasprit Bumrah (bad habit commander), Avesh Khan and Mayank Agarwal.