The national selectors rewarded Mumbai batsman Shreyas Iyer and Hyderabad fast bowler Mohammed Siraj for their consistent performances for India ‘A’ by naming them in the India squad for the three-match T20 series against New Zealand next month. Iyer comes in to replace Maharashtra’s Kedar Jadhav from the squad that squared the series against Australia 1-1 while Siraj has won his maiden national call-up. Prasad explained: “We have communicated to Nehra and the team management that we were only looking at him till the New Zealand series. Nehra, though named in the T20 squad against Australia recently, did not figure in the playing 11. Siraj, 23-year-old right-arm medium-pacer, has 26 wickets in 16 T20s at an average of 18.73 and an economy rate of 7.85.

Source: dna October 23, 2017 08:08 UTC