After India added Harshit Rana to their squad for the ongoing tour of England as the 19th member of the squad, a member of the India-A squad, which was in England for a shadow tour, took to Instagram and posted a cryptic story that caught the eyes of cricket fans on social media.

Mukesh Kumar, who has played three Test matches for India and debuted before Rana, posted a strongly worded statement on Instagram. Mukesh and Harshit both played the first unofficial Test match between India A and England Lions and it was the format that had the better performance.

The game ended in a draw as the English team batted just once, which meant the Indian bowling unit got just once to bowl at Canterbury. In the Lions' innings, Mukesh bowled 25 overs and gave away 92 runs while taking three wickets. All three wickets were of batters in the top six, which included centurion Max Holden. Meanwhile, Harshit bowled 27 overs and gave away 99 runs while taking just one wicket, which was the dismissal of number 10 batter Josh Hull.

Both players were rested for the second match as Khaleel Ahmed and Tushar Deshpande got a chance. The scoreboard of the intra-squad between India-A and India are not known hence the performance of both players in that game is unclear.

'Karma Bides its time. You will always have to watch out. Karma is unforgiving and always get payback," wrote Mukesh on Instagram.

Mukesh made his debut in all three formats for India in July-August 2023 during the tour of Australia. However, he has not played for India in any format since July last year, when he featured for the Men in Blue in a T20I series against Zimbabwe. His last outing in Test cricket was in November 2023.

Intrestingly, Mukesh has not played for India since Gautam Gambhir took over as head coach during the tour of Sri Lanka last year in July.

As far as Harshit is concerned, he made his Test debut for India in November last year against Australia during the Indian team's famous victory in Perth. Later, he debuted in T20I and ODI cricket during a home series against England. Harshit was part of India's 2025 Champions Trophy-winning squad and played two games.

Harshit created the rare record of being the only Indian in history to take 3 or more wickets in an innings on debut in all three formats in international cricket.

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