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India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has replaced Ruturaj Gaikwad in the World Test Championship (WTC) squad as a stand-by player. 

Right-handed opener Gaikwad won’t be able to travel to London as he is getting married in the first week of June. He has scored 625 runs in 14 innings in IPL 2023 for Rajasthan Royals with five fifties and a century. 

"He (Jaiswal) will be joining the Indian team as Gaikwad has informed us that he won’t be able to fly due to his marriage," a BCCI official was quoted saying.

"He would be able to join the team post-June 5. (But) Coach Rahul Dravid took a call, asking the selectors to pick a replacement. So, Jaiswal will now fly to London soon,"

Jaiswal, who is yet to make his India debut in any format but has an outstanding first-class record where he has scored 1845 runs in 15 matches, averaging 80.21 with nine hundreds and two fifties.

Apart from Gaikwad, the national selectors named Mukesh Kumar and Suryakumar Yadav as the other two standby players for the WTC final.

India squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, KS Bharat (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Kishan (wk)