Centurion: Indian team's premier wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan will not be a part of the upcoming two-Test series against South Africa as he has flown back home due to personal reasons.
K S Bharat, who is currently in South Africa as India 'A' skipper, has been inducted into the main squad.
"Ishan Kishan has requested the BCCI to be released from the upcoming Test series against South Africa citing personal reasons. The wicketkeeper has subsequently been withdrawn from the Test squad. The men's selection committee has named K S Bharat as a replacement," BCCI said in a statement.
Kishan made his Test debut in the West Indies after Bharat was given five Test matches in which he failed to score a single fifty.
It is expected that K L Rahul will keep wickets in the Boxing Day Test.
Indian Test squad: Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, KL Rahul (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah (vice-capt), Prasidh Krishna, K S Bharat (wk).
