The pacer from Karnal, who plays for Delhi in domestic cricket and represents RCB in the IPL, will be flying to the United Kingdom for the World Cup as one of India's four net bowlers for the showpiece.
Saini picked up 11 wickets for the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) from 13 matches and was their second best bowler after spinner Yuzvendra Chahal.
After finishing last in IPL 2017 and 6th in IPL 2018, Virat Kohli's RCB is all set to finish last again in this year's Indian Premier League.
AB de Villiers scored a blistering 44-ball 82 not out while Navdeep Saini bowled an impressive spell and returned with 2/33 as RCB beat KXIP by 17 runs in Bengaluru.
Royal Challengers Bangalore have won four out of their last five games and there is an outside chance of their playoff qualification if they can win the remaining three games.
Navdeep Saini is the sole bowler among the standbys with the others being Ambati Rayudu and Rishabh Pant.
Former Australia speedster Brett Lee said that it feels good to see young India pacers like Prasidh Krishna and Navdeep Saini running in and bowling fast.
While Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan and Deepak Chahar will be travelling with the team purely as net bowlers.
Following on, the visitors ended the second day at 24 for no loss in their second innings, still behind by 228 runs.
Soon after Navdeep Saini got his maiden India call-up, Gambhir took a dig at former India cricketers Bishan Singh Bedi and Chetan Chauhan, who had earlier questioned Saini's selection in Delhi squad.
Gambhir after watching him bowl for 15 minutes had decided that Saini was a rare talent, who should be groomed properly.
The loss, however, will hardly have any affect on Delhi's knockout chances as they are sitting pretty at the top with 16 points from five games.
The young speedster bowled one of the most devastating spells of recent times in Indian domestic cricket as Delhi humiliated Bengal by an innings and 26 runs to enter the Ranji Trophy final.
Speedster Navdeep Saini bowled one of the most devastating spells of recent times in Indian domestic cricket as Delhi humiliated Bengal by an innings and 26 runs to enter the Ranji Trophy final.
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