Recently, Ishan Kishan has been in the news a lot due to his selection in the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup 2026. Kishan has returned to the Indian squad after a long time and the credit for this goes to his explosive performance in domestic cricket. He became the captain immediately after his selection in the World Cup squad. Actually, Ishan Kishan will be seen captaining the Jharkhand team in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 season starting from 24th December.

Ishan Kishan will be the captain of Jharkhand team for Vijay Hazare Trophy. Other wicketkeeper batsman Kumar Kushagra has been appointed vice-captain. Let us tell you that Ishan Kishan is in great form, he was the highest run-scorer in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025-26. He scored 517 runs after playing 10 matches in the tournament. He also scored 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Jharkhand team has Anukul Roy, who is coming with 18 wickets in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Strong performance will be expected from him in Vijay Hazare Trophy also, because he can also bat strongly. Vice-captain Kumar Kushagra and Virat Singh are also running in great rhythm. Utkarsh Singh, Bala Krishna and Shubham Singh are also present in this team.

Jharkhand’s squad for Vijay Hazare Trophy: Ishan Kishan (captain), Kumar Kushagra (vice-captain), Utkarsh Singh, Virat Singh, Robin Minz, Anukul Roy, Sharandeep Singh, Shikhar Mohan, Panjak Kumar, Bala Krishna, Mohammad Kunin Qureshi, Shubh Sharma, Amit Kumar, Manishi, Abhinav Sharan, Sushant Mishra, Vikas Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Rajandeep Singh, Shubham Singh.

Vijay Hazare Trophy will start from 24th December and the final match will be played on 18th January. A total of 38 teams will participate in the tournament, among which a total of 135 matches will be played.

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Ishan kishan imitating harbhajan singh: Ishaan Kishan is currently playing for Nottinghamshire at the County Championship in England. Ishaan is often in the discussion about his brilliant batting and wicketkeeping. But this time he came in the discussion about his bowling. Ishaan came to bowl against Summerset. Where he was copying the legendary spin bowler of India Harbhajan Singh. Whose video is becoming increasingly viral on social media.

Ishaan got a copy of Harbhajan, gave only one run

Ishaan got a chance to bowl in Nottinghamshire vs. Sommerset match. The draw of the match was already decided. Ishaan got a chance to put the last over of the match. Ishaan put off spin on the first four balls. He was seen bowling in the action of Harbhajan. After this, he changed the side and threw leg spin. Ishaan gave just one run in the over.

The match between the two teams was drawn. Sommerset scored 379 runs in the first innings. In response, Nottinghamshire scored 509 runs in the first innings. After this, Sommerset scored 238 runs for four wickets in his second innings till the end of the last day.

Ishan kishan bowling in county cricket
He bowled an over an economy of 1.#Ishankishan pic.twitter.com/qfjia0kzjg

– Ayush (@ayushcricket32) July 3, 2025

Ishaan did wonders with the bat

This was the second match of Ishaan in county cricket. Ishaan batted brilliantly in this match. The northeast missed out on a century, but he scored a brilliant half -century. Ishaan scored an innings of 77 runs. Ishaan hit 8 fours and two sixes during this innings.

Earlier, Ishaan also batted brilliantly on her county debut. He scored 87 runs in just 98 balls against Yorkshire. Ishaan hit 12 fours and a six during this innings.

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Ishan kishan bcci central contract: The BCCI Central Contract List has not been released yet, but Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are updated that they are going to remain in A+ grade. Media reports claimed that Shreyas Iyer is going to get his contract back. Meanwhile, news has also come out on the future of wicketkeeper batsman Ishaan Kishan. Recall that last year, Shreyas Iyer and Ishaan Kishan were dropped by the BCCI from the Central Contract list due to not playing domestic cricket.

According to sports, BCCI can give his contract back to Shreyas Iyer. On the other hand, Ishaan Kishan may have to wait to get back the contract. Kishan was seen representing the Indian team for the last time in a T20 match against Australia in November 2023.

Ishaan Kishan will have to wait

A source was quoted up to sports as saying, “Ishaan Kishan will have to wait for the central contract to get back.

Ishaan Kishan scored 320 runs in IPL 2024 at an average of just 23 after BCCI was out of the Central Contract List. Apart from this, Kishan has not been able to perform amazing in domestic matches. Since 2024, Kishan’s average in T20 has been only 28.04. Apart from the Ranji Trophy, he could not perform anything special even on the Australian tour of India A team.

Talking about Shreyas Iyer on the other hand, he was the highest run -scorer for India in the Champions Trophy 2025. He scored 243 runs in the tournament. After being out of the central contract list, Iyer made KKR champions under his captaincy in IPL 2024.

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