India recall Bhuvneshwar Kumar for New Zealand T20Is

India have recalled Bhuvneshwar Kumar for the five-match T20I series against New Zealand later this month. Bhuvneshwar, whose last appearance for India was also in a T20I in New Zealand in November 2022, earned the call-up after an impressive IPL 2026 campaign, where he picked up 28 wickets to finish as the second-highest wicket-taker during Royal Challengers Bengaluru's successful title defence.

Varun Chakravarthy is also back for India, having recovered from a side strain suffered during the T20I series against Afghanistan in September which ruled him out of the one-off game against Japan and the Asian Games.

Legspinner Ravi Bishnoi has been left out of the 16-member squad.

Shreyas Iyer (capt.), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Naman Dhir, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav