{"id":37651,"date":"2026-06-21T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37651"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:03:48","slug":"india-recall-kohli-for-england-odi-tour-subject-to-fitness","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/india-recall-kohli-for-england-odi-tour-subject-to-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"India recall Kohli for England ODI tour, subject to fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli will return to the Indian team for the one-day international series in England \u200bstarting from July, subject to a fitness clearance, \u200cthe country\u2019s cricket board (BCCI) said this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran batter was ruled out of this month\u2019s ODI series against Afghanistan \u200bbecause of an injury picked up while playing \u200bfor Royal Challengers Bengaluru in a victory \u2060over Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League (IPL) \u200bfinal in May, where Bengaluru secured a second consecutive \u200bIPL title.<\/p>\n<p>India will play three ODIs in England on July 14, 16 and 19 at Edgbaston, Sophia Gardens and \u200bLord\u2019s respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Yashasvi Jaiswal, who replaced Kohli against Afghanistan, \u200bwas not included in the squad for the England tour despite scoring \u200ca \u2060century in the third ODI against the Afghans on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bowler Harshit Rana also returns after a lengthy layoff caused by a knee injury, which ruled him \u200bout of \u200bthe Twenty20 \u2060World Cup and the IPL.<\/p>\n<p>Rana was a part of the squad in the \u200bthird ODI against Afghanistan, but did \u200bnot make \u2060the final playing XI.<\/p>\n<p>SQUAD: Shubman Gill (captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Washington Sundar, \u2060Axar \u200bPatel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Kuldeep \u200bYadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Gurnoor Brar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13792,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-37651","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Rana was a part of the squad in the \u200bthird ODI against Afghanistan.","published_date":"","news_description":"Rana was a part of the squad in the \u200bthird ODI against Afghanistan.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37652,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37651\/revisions\/37652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}