Bhuvneshwar's Injury Forces India To Call Saini As Net Bowler

Navdeep Saini, a pacer from Delhi and Royal Challengers Bangalore who is known to consistently trouble batsmen with his pace and bounce, has joined the India squad in Manchester on Monday as an official net bowler.

Saini is the only net bowler with the Indian team currently, BCCI was quoted as saying by ANI.

Saini, along with Rishabh Pant and Ambati Rayudu, had been originally named as standby to the 15-man World Cup squad. However, he was unable to travel to England with the rest of the squad because of an injury he picked up in the IPL.

The move to draft Saini into the scheme of things could have been taken by the Indian team management in light of the injury to Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who is set to miss the next few matches with a hamstring injury. He walked off the field in the Pakistan match and did not play against Afghanistan.