Key Highlights
- After reviewing the clinical and scan reports, the BCCI medical team confirmed that Pant has sustained a side strain, also known as an oblique muscle tear.
- He will miss the entire ODI series.
- The Men’s Selection Committee has named Dhruv Jurel as Pant’s replacement.
- Jurel has already joined the Indian squad.
- India’s updated ODI squad includes Shubman Gill as captain, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer as vice-captain, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal and wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel.