The Indian T20I squad for the South Africa series has been announced as Suresh Raina has been called up to the team. Axar Patel and Shardul Thakur have also been called up after been overlooked for the tour of Sri Lanka.

However, there have been absentees here as well as Shreyas Iyer has missed out of the 16-man squad with Basil Thampi, Deepak Hooda and Washington Sundar also among the absentees.

India squad: Virat Kohli (capt) Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (wk), Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Manish Pandey, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Jaydev Unadkat, Shardul Thakur