Tilak Varma Fitness Update: The excitement of T20 World Cup 2026 is just about to begin. 20 teams of the world will face each other, a total of 55 matches will be played in the tournament and all this will happen just for a shining trophy. India will enter this tournament as the defending champion, but Tilak Verma’s injury remains a matter of great concern. Now the latest update regarding his fitness has come out.

Tilak Verma, the most reliable batsman of India’s T20 team, has started practicing again. He shared a video on social media, in which it can be clearly seen that Tilak has started batting practice. According to the video going viral, Tilak is able to hit shots with good footwork.

The most important link of Team India

Tilak Verma is the most important link of Team India, who scored 187 runs at an average of 62.33 in four innings of the T20 series against South Africa in December 2025. His fitness is very good news for the Indian team. Has scored two half-centuries in the last 3 T20 innings.

Tilak Verma gave an example of his maturity when Team India lost 3 quick wickets against Pakistan in the Asia Cup final. In such a situation, Tilak gave a historic victory to Team India by playing an unbeaten inning of 69 runs.

In his absence, Ishan Kishan got a chance at number-3, which he left no stone unturned to capitalize on. Ishan Kishan got the opportunity to bat in 3 innings against New Zealand, in which he scored 112 runs including a half-century and also impressed everyone with his stormy strike rate.

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Tilak Verma has proved to be the most reliable batsman of Team India at number-3. Till now, while batting at number three, he has scored 542 runs in 15 innings at an excellent average of 60.22 and both the century innings of his T20 career have also come in this batting order. At the fourth position also his batting average is 54.44.

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The Indian cricket team is fully prepared for the T20 World Cup 2026. Before this big tournament, India has taken an unassailable 3-0 lead in the 5-match T20 series against New Zealand. Except the first match, the team won one-sidedly in both the other matches. Last Sunday, the team completed the target of 154 in just 10 overs. Abhishek Sharma is in great form, while captain Suryakumar Yadav has also returned in great form. Meanwhile, a big good news came for the team, Tilak Verma has become fit.

Tilak Verma is a part of T20 World Cup 2026, who is out of the team due to stomach problem. Although the team has explosive batsmen like Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, but the strength of the Indian team is that if the top order of the team flops, then the middle order batsmen play good innings keeping in mind the pace of runs. Hardik Pandya, Tilak Verma are such middle order batsmen.

Tilak Verma can play 5th T20

According to the report of Indian Express, Tilak Verma will be available in the fifth T20 against New Zealand to be held on January 31 in Thiruvananthapuram. Let us tell you that he had a stomach operation during the Vijay Hazare Trophy, after which the doctors asked him to take rest for 2 weeks. He is working hard to get fit in the Center of Excellence in Bengaluru. However, the team management does not want any haste in Tilak’s return, instead they want Tilak to be completely fit for the T20 World Cup 2026.

Tilak has started training

BCCI had earlier told that Tilak Verma has started physical training. Once his symptoms are completely cured and the wound healing process is satisfactory, he will gradually return to skill-based activities. BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia had said about him that he is out of the first 3 matches against New Zealand, the decision on his availability in the other 2 matches will be taken based on his progress in the training and skill phase.

India’s squad in T20 World Cup 2026

Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dubey, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Rinku Singh.