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India Squad Against New Zealand: With the announcement of Team India for the T20 World Cup 2026, the Indian team was also selected for the series against New Zealand. Only one team has been selected for the T20 World Cup 2026 and the T20 series against New Zealand. The big news is that the vice-captain of Team India's T20 team has changed. Axar Patel has been made the vice-captain for both the New Zealand series and T20 World Cup 2026.
T20 World Cup 2026 is being hosted by India. Keeping the same preparations in mind, the New Zealand team is coming to tour India before the T20 World Cup 2026, for which the Indian team has been announced.
Since there is only one team for T20 World Cup 2026 and New Zealand series, then Shubman Gill will remain out of this series also. Ishan Kishan has taken his place in the team. Ishan Kishan has been rewarded for his amazing performance in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. In SMAT 2025, Ishan Kishan has scored more than 500 runs with 33 sixes. He was the only batsman to score 500 plus runs in the tournament.
Talking about the performance of Shubman Gill in comparison to Ishaan, he has scored only 32 runs in 3 innings of the 5 T20 series played against South Africa.
Like Shubman Gill, Jitesh Sharma has also been dropped from the T20 team against New Zealand. Rinku Singh has returned. Rinku Singh was not a part of Team India in the T20 series against South Africa.
Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Tilak Verma, Axar Patel (vice-captain), Shivam Dubey, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Rinku Singh.
