Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan and Rahul Tewatia’s Indian Premier League form earned them maiden call-ups to India’s 19-man T20I squad for their five-match series against England.
There were also spots for Rohit Sharma, Bhuveshwar Kumar and Varun Chakavarthy, who missed the Australia tour through injury.
Meanwhile, the injured Manish Pandey, Sanju Samson, Jasprit Bumrah and Mayank Agarwal miss out.
Axar Patel comes into the squad for the injured Ravindra Jadeja.
Squad: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (v-c), KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Yuzvendra Chahal, Varun Chakravarthy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur.