The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) introduced India’s squad for the remaining three Test matches towards England on Saturday, February 10. The star wicketkeeper batter KL Rahul returned to the workforce after lacking the Vizag Test as a result of an harm and so has Ravindra Jadeja however the likes of Virat Kohli and Mohammed Shami stay out as a result of totally different causes.
The struggling batter Shreyas Iyer is a notable absentee from the workforce for the subsequent three matches. Iyer scored simply 104 runs in 4 innings on this collection after a string of poor performances on the South Africa tour. Both Rajat Patidar and Sarfaraz Khan have been retained within the workforce with the latter tipped to make his highly-anticipated debut within the Rajkot Test beginning on February 15.
India levelled the five-match collection with a 106-run win within the Vizag Test after heroics from Japrit Bumrah and Yashasvi Jaiswal. Bumrah is dominating the leaderboard with 15 wickets and dethroned Ravichandran Ashwin to turn out to be the no.1 Test bowler within the ICC rankings.Â
Notably, the participation of Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja within the third Test is topic to medical clearance.Â
On the opposite hand, left-arm orthodox bowler Saurabh Kumar has been launched from the squad and that has paved the best way for the inclusion of Bengal’s right-arm medium pacer Akash Deep. The 27-year-old bowling allrounder has picked up 103 scalps in 29 first-class video games at a stellar common of 23.18 and has been rewarded for his arduous grind within the home circuit.
India’s squad for the last three Tests vs England:
Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul*, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (WK), KS Bharat (WK), R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja*, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep.
