England has announced their playing 11 for the upcoming fourth Test match and has made one change to the same. The English team had to make a forced change after winning the third Test at Lord’s.
Shoaib Bashir sustained a finger injury during India’s first innings in the previous Test. He bowled 14.5 overs and took one wicket for 59 runs. In the second innings, Bashir bowled 5.5 overs and took the wicket of Mohammed Siraj, the last wicket that fell on the fifth day.
England picked Liam Dawson in place of Bashir, and he has been named in the playing 11. Dawson made his Test debut in 2016 against India and played his last Test against South Africa in 2017. He has taken seven wickets in three Test matches at an average of 42.57 and has scored 84 runs.
Here’s England’s playing 11 for the fourth Test against India:
Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Liam Dawson, Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer.
England and India have played a total of nine Test matches in Manchester against India and England has been victorious on four occasions. India has not won a Test match in Manchester so far. England and India last played a Test match in Manchester in 2014, which England won by an innings and 54 runs.
India has made two changes to their squad for the fourth Test. Pacer Akashdeep Singh and all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy have been ruled out of the fourth Test. Anshul Kamboj has been picked in the Indian squad for the Manchester Test.
Here’s India’s squad for the fourth Test against England:
Shubman Gill (c), Rishabh Pant (VC & WK), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Kuldeep Yadav, Anshul Kamboj
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