England vs India: Nitish Kumar Reddy out of rest of Test series as India name uncapped Anshul Kamboj in squad for Old Trafford

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Nitish Kumar Reddy during an India grooming  sessionImage source, Getty Images

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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 volition miss the remainder of their Test bid against England owed to a genu injury.

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

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

"He [Arshdeep] sustained an interaction wounded to his near thumb portion bowling successful the nets astatine a grooming league successful Beckenham," said the BBCI.

"The BCCI aesculapian squad is monitoring his progress."

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

Reddy hardly made an interaction successful India's emphatic triumph implicit 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 decision astatine Lord's past week arsenic England went 2-1 up successful the five-match series.

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

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

Bumrah is earmarked to play 3 matches successful the bid and featured successful the archetypal and 3rd Tests.

Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant could beryllium successful enactment to play arsenic a specializer batter if helium does not retrieve from the digit wounded helium suffered astatine Lord's with 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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