The Indian Squad for the New Zealand T20I Series has been announced. It is a squad that has a few surprises. This series will be one of the most important series that the squad will take part in. It will be a 5 Match series.
Let's look at the Indian Squad for T20I Series against New Zealand
Shreyas Iyer - Captain
Batters
Abhishek Sharma
Tilak Verma
Wicket Keepers
Sanju Sanson
Ishan Kishan
All Rounders
Naman Dhir
Shivam Dube
Axar Patel
Nitish Kumar Reddy
Fast Bowlers
Prince Yadav
Mayank Yadav
Arshdeep Singh
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Spinners
Kuldeep Yadav
Varun Chakravarthy
Taking point from India Squad vs New Zealand 2026
Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been called back to the Squad after 4 years. India had to go back to his experience.
Varun Chakravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav will be the two spinners for India.
Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Sanju Sanson will be the opening batters for India.
Tilak Verma, Shreyas Iyer, Naman Dhir, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel will be the middle and lower order batters for India.
Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Arshdeep Singh will be the fast bowlers for India in this Series.
Tilak Verma is the vice captain and Nitish Kumar Reddy is the second fast bowling all rounder along with Shivam Dube.
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