NEW DELHI: The Indian team on Saturday suffered a big blow as star all-rounder Shivam Dube was ruled out of the entire T20I series against Bangladesh due to a back injury.
The three-match T20I series begins on Sunday in Gwalior and Dube injury comes as a setback for the side.
In a social media post, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) stated that Dube will be unavailable for the three-match series and named another left-hander Tilak Varma as his replacement.
“All-rounder Shivam Dube is ruled out of the three-match T20I series owing to a back injury. The Senior Selection Committee has named Tilak Varma as Shivam’s replacement. Tilak will link up with the squad in Gwalior on Sunday morning,” BCCI said in a release.
Dube has so far played 33 T20Is for India where he has scored 448 runs and took 11 wickets.
It is understood that Dube’s back injury has resurfaced while training in Mumbai before the start of the Bangladesh series and once he came to Gwalior, the pain didn’t subside and he felt discomfort while training.
The 21-year-old Tilak has played 16 T20Is for India in which he scored 336 runs and took a couple of wickets with his slow bowling.
The MI star was recently injured and wasn’t picked for either Zimbabwe or Sri Lanka T20Is.
India’s updated squad for the T20I series against Bangladesh: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Riyan Parag, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakaravarthy, JItesh Sharma (wk), Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Mayank Yadav, Tilak Varma