Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 110* off 86 balls in the third Afghanistan ODI on June 20, became the fastest Indian batter to two ODI centuries, and still didn’t make India’s England squad announced the next day. The BCCI named a 15-member group on June 21 with Virat Kohli included on a fitness caveat, but no official explanation for Jaiswal’s exclusion, or for the omission of Prince Yadav and Harsh Dubey, who were also cut without comment from the selectors.
India’s 15-Member ODI Squad
Shubman Gill leads the squad as captain, with Shreyas Iyer as his deputy. The returning faces are Jasprit Bumrah, who was rested for the Afghanistan series, along with Axar Patel and Harshit Rana.
| Player | Role |
| Shubman Gill | Captain |
| Rohit Sharma | Opener |
| Virat Kohli* | Batter (fitness clearance pending) |
| Shreyas Iyer | Vice-Captain |
| KL Rahul | Wicketkeeper-batter |
| Ishan Kishan | Wicketkeeper-batter |
| Washington Sundar | All-rounder |
| Axar Patel | All-rounder |
| Nitish Kumar Reddy | All-rounder |
| Kuldeep Yadav | Spinner |
| Jasprit Bumrah | Pacer |
| Prasidh Krishna | Pacer |
| Harshit Rana | Pacer |
| Arshdeep Singh | Pacer |
| Gurnoor Brar | Pacer |
*Subject to fitness clearance
Hardik Pandya is absent from the group, having failed to recover fully from an IPL 2026 injury. Varun Chakravarthy was separately ruled out of the Ireland T20I series and remains in rehab at the BCCI Centre of Excellence for a left foot injury sustained in IPL 2026.
Jaiswal India ODI England Tour 2026
In the 3rd Afghanistan ODI at Chennai, Jaiswal shared a 170-run opening stand with Rohit Sharma (79 off 69 balls) and finished unbeaten on 110 off 86 balls, 14 fours, 3 sixes, strike rate 127.90. India chased 219 in 28.4 overs and won by 9 wickets.
That knock made him the fastest Indian to two ODI centuries, reaching the landmark in just 6 innings. He’s ahead of Shikhar Dhawan (7 innings), Kedar Jadhav (9), Virat Kohli (17), and Shubman Gill (18).
His Afghanistan series total was 114 runs across two innings; he didn’t bat in the first match, with an average of 71.25 across his six-innings ODI career and two unbeaten centuries (116* and 110*).
None of that was enough for England. ETV Bharat and DNA India both confirmed that the selectors issued no official statement on the exclusions. Gill acknowledged a “good headache” in the top-order selection picture but didn’t address the cuts directly. The reporters’ read is that Jaiswal, Prince Yadav, and Harsh Dubey simply made way for senior players returning from rest, the same informal reasoning applied when Bumrah and Axar were dropped from the Afghanistan squad without explanation.
Kohli’s Fitness Question Mark
Kohli’s place in the squad comes with an asterisk, literally. He sustained a distal semimembranosus tendon tear in his hamstring during RCB’s IPL 2026 title run, with the injury occurring around May 31, the day of the final.
At a press conference around June 6–7, selector chairman Ajit Agarkar said:
“With Virat at this point, it’s just been less than a week since he injured himself in the [IPL] finals. We don’t know the timelines yet… It looks like he might be fit for that England one-day series. It’s not a definitive answer, so don’t hold me to it. I haven’t had a clear timeline from the physio yet.”
No updated physio timeline accompanied the June 21 squad announcement. His availability for the series opener on July 14 at Edgbaston remains unconfirmed.
India’s Top Order for England
The series runs across three venues: Edgbaston on July 14, Sophia Gardens in Cardiff on July 16, and Lord’s on July 19. England’s swing-friendly conditions in July will test India’s top-order depth in a way the Afghanistan home series did not.
If Kohli passes his fitness test, the first-choice top four writes itself: Rohit and Gill at the top, Kohli at three, Iyer at four. If he doesn’t, India has options, but not a direct replacement. Ishan Kishan slotted into the Kohli role against Afghanistan in the first ODI, scoring alongside Gill’s 84* in a seven-wicket win. Rohit and Nitish Kumar Reddy offer further flexibility.
The squad that travels to England for the Jaiswal India ODI England tour 2026 carries enough batting depth to cope, but Kohli’s clearance date will shape the XI before the first ball is bowled at Edgbaston.