The Indian selectors led by Chetan Sharma will meet on Tuesday to choose the squad for the very first two Tests against England which gets underway at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai from February 5. An eye will be on the injury status of the likes of Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, and Jasprit Bumrah. Chief selector Chetan Sharma, Sunil Joshi, Harvinder Singh, Debasis Mohanty, and Abey Kuruvilla will require to see if the likes of Bumrah and Ashwin can be back for the very first game in Chennai just after missing out on the final Test of the series against Australia at The Gabba.
BCCI interestingly posted a video of each Bumrah and Ashwin bowling in the course of a education session about the fourth day’s play in Brisbane.
The tweet study: “.@Jaspritbumrah93 & @ashwinravi99 were seen getting into the groove at The Gabba earlier in the day..Seems like the warm-up for #INDvENG is already underway #TeamIndia.”
While Ishant Sharma is virtually particular to come back into the group just after placing up a sturdy show for Delhi in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar has also carried out nicely for Uttar Pradesh. While Ishant has picked 5 wickets in 4 games with finest figures of 2/16, Bhuvi has picked 4 wickets from 4 outings with finest figures of 3/22.
Virat Kohli is set to return as the skipper just after going on paternity leave in the course of the ongoing series against Australia and 1 of the tougher calls will be to accommodate the likes of Shardul Thakur, T Natarajan, and Washington Sundar in the group for the Tests against England. After their inspiring show in the final game at The Gabba, it will be a small unfair if the major players return to take their positions back.
The Australia series saw India losing Mohammad Shami just after the very first Test as he broke his arm in the course of the second innings at the Adelaide Oval. Umesh Yadav was ruled out with a calf injury in the course of the second Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Ravindra Jadeja and Hanuma Vihari have been ruled out just after their efforts in the third Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground. While Jadeja broke his thumb, Vihari had a Grade 2 tear. And ultimately, India lost the services of Bumrah and Ashwin going into the final game of the series.
While Ashwin had back challenges, Bumrah could not recover from an abdominal strain. If all this wasn’t sufficient, Navdeep Saini as well broke down in the course of the very first innings in the fourth Test, but did return gingerly to bowl in the second innings.
The very first two games of the 4-game series are to be played in Chennai prior to the cricketers move to Ahmedabad for the third and fourth Test.
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