Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami are not included in India’s squads announced for the upcoming series against the West Indies. Both players are left out in the team selection released on Wednesday.
The reports describe this as another instance of the players being excluded from the current set of squads. The outlets frame the development as a “snub,” but the underlying point they share is the same: neither Shami nor Bhuvneshwar makes the matchday selection for the series against West Indies based on the squads announced this week. No additional specific reasons for their omission are provided in the shared coverage.
As a result, attention shifts to who replaces them in the squad and how India’s bowling options are reshaped for the series. With multiple outlets referencing the same omission, the main difference in framing is largely rhetorical rather than factual.
