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India and India A squads for New Zealand tour announced

Rakesh Thapliyal

New Delhi, October 7, 2026: The Men’s Selection Committee has announced India and India A squads for the upcoming tour of New Zealand. India will play five T20Is, while India A will play three Multi-Day matches against New Zealand A. The squad for the ODIs and Test series will be announced later

India’s T20I Squad: Shreyas Iyer [C], Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson [WK], Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan [WK], Tilak Varma [VC], Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Naman Dhir, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav.

India tour of New Zealand – T20I series fixtures
No.	Day	Date	Match	Venue
1	Thu	22-Oct-26	1st T20I	Christchurch
2	Sat	24-Oct-26	2nd T20I	Christchurch
3	Tue	27-Oct-26	3rd T20I	Wellington
4	Fri	30-Oct-26	4th T20I	Auckland
5	Sun	01-Nov-26	5th T20I	Hamilton

India A squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravichandran Smaran, Rishabh Pant [WK]*, Dhruv Jurel [C] [WK], Washington Sundar, Auqib Nabi, Akash Deep, Anshul Kamboj, Manav Suthar, Mukesh Choudhary, Sai Sudharsan, Yash Rathod, Mukesh Kumar.

Note:* Subject to fitness

A tour of New Zealand – Multi-day fixtures
No.	Day	Date	Day (to)	Date (to)	Match	Venue
1	Sat	24-Oct-26	Tue	27-Oct-26	1^st Multi-Day	Lincoln
2	Sat	31-Oct-26	Tue	03-Nov-26	2^nd Multi-Day	Christchurch
3	Sat	07-Nov-26	Tue	10-Nov-26	3^rd Multi-Day	Lincoln