India's Reddy Misses Remaining Tests Due To Injury

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Nitish Kumar Reddy has played 7 Tests and 4 T20s for India

Timothy Abraham

BBC Sport Journalist

India all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy will miss nan remainder of their Test bid against England owed to a knee injury.

The Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) said successful a connection that nan 22-year-old will now alert location to statesman his rehabilitation.

India are besides without seamer Arshdeep Singh for this week's 4th Test aft he was ruled retired pinch a thumb injury.

"He [Arshdeep] sustained an effect wounded to his near thumb while bowling successful nan nets astatine a training convention successful Beckenham," said nan BBCI.

"The BCCI aesculapian squad is monitoring his progress."

India person added uncapped all-rounder Anshul Kamboj to their squad for nan 4th Test astatine Old Trafford, which starts connected Wednesday.

Reddy hardly made an effect successful India's emphatic triumph complete England astatine Edgbaston, going wicketless and scoring 1 tally successful each innings.

He took 3 wickets for 82 and contributed 43 runs crossed some innings successful their conclusion astatine Lord's past week arsenic England went 2-1 up successful nan five-match series.

Left-arm speedy Arshdeep has not featured successful immoderate of nan 3 Tests truthful far.

India will besides person to see whether accelerated bowler Jasprit Bumrah will play successful Manchester arsenic they negociate his workload.

Bumrah is earmarked to play 3 matches successful nan bid and featured successful nan first and 3rd Tests.

Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant could beryllium successful statement to play arsenic a master batter if he does not retrieve from nan digit wounded he suffered astatine Lord's pinch Dhruv Jurel poised to measurement up if required.

India squad for 4th Test: Shubman Gill (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Kuldeep Yadav, Anshul Kamboj

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