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The Indian squad for the upcoming ICC Men's T20 World Cup in Australia and for the T20I series against Australia and South Africa at home has been announced.

Pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel have made their return to the team for the World Cup and for the Australia and South Africa series.

Pacers Mohammed Shami and Deepak Chahar have been included in the squad for T20 World Cup as standby players and also feature in squads for the two home series.

The ICC T20 World Cup will take place this year from October 16 to November 13.

Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh and Bhuvneshwar Kumar will be reporting to the National Cricket Academy (NCA) for conditioning-related work during the course of the home series against Australia and South Africa.

Rohit Sharma will lead the 15-man squad. KL Rahul will be his deputy. The team also incudes two wicket-keepers, Dinesh Karthik and Rishabh Pant.

India squad for ICC T20 World Cup: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), Hardik Pandya, R. Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh.

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Standby players - Mohd. Shami, Shreyas Iyer, Ravi Bishnoi, Deepak Chahar.