http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 pick up unchanged squad for third Test – Cricket News Update
The BCCI selectors on Tuesday named an unchanged squad from the ten-wicket crushing to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 for the third Test of the four-match series, commencing at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata from December 5, 2012.
Fast bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 pacer Ishant Sharma keeps his place.
Yadav, the 25-year-old http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Maharashtra-c811 seamer, was the most effective Indian pace bowler in the series opener returning with figures of 4 for 84. He picked up a lower back injury ahead of the Mumbai Test and subsequently missed the encounter. He has been advised “at least 10 days’ rest” by a specialist in Mumbai and is not expected to recover in time despite there being a prolonged break ahead of the Test.
"The injury is more serious than it was thought to be, so the team will have to make do without him for at least another Test," a source from inside the Indian cricket board told ESPNcricinfo.
Given the lengthy break ahead of the third Test, the India players have been granted a few days’ break and will assemble in Kolkata on December 2. On the other side of the coin, the English players will remain in Mumbai before leaving for Kolkata on November 30.
India won the series opener in Ahmedabad by nine wickets before the Three http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 bounced back strongly in Mumbai to level the series 1-1, with a ten-wicket crushing. The fourth and final five-dayer will be played in Nagpur between December 13 and 17.
The Poms are also scheduled to play two T20 Internationals against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 and his Men in Blue in the first leg of the tour, before returning home on a Christmas and New Year Break, on December 22. The squad for the fourth Test and the two T20I affairs will be picked later, a BCCI release said.
Squad: MS Dhoni (capt), http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379.
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