Sept 1 (Reuters) - ⁠Teenager Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was named ⁠in India's squad for the ‌T20 series against Afghanistan on Tuesday after responding to a disappointing debut series ​in England with two ⁠half-centuries against ⁠Zimbabwe in July.

• Fast bowler Jasprit ⁠Bumrah was ‌also named in the squad, subject to ⁠fitness, having been sidelined by a ​knee ‌injury and missing the test ⁠series in ​Sri Lanka last month.

• All-rounders Nitish Kumar Reddy and Washington ⁠Sundar, along with paceman ​Harshit Rana, were named pending final fitness clearances.

• Shreyas Iyer will continue ⁠as captain, with World Cup-winning skipper Suryakumar Yadav again left out of the squad.

• India ​host Afghanistan in ⁠a three-match T20 series in New ​Delhi from September ‌13 to 17.

(Reporting by ​Karan Prashant Saxena in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)