IND vs ENG 4th Test: India's pace-bowling all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy has been ruled out of the remainder of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy 2025 due to a left knee injury. Also, left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh has been ruled out the fourth Test due to a left thumb injury sustained while bowling in the nets.
In a statement, BCCI said that the medical team is monitoring Arshdeep's progress and he is not ruled out of the fifth Test. Meanwhile, the men's selection committee has added pacer Anshul Kamboj to the squad. Kamboj was seen in Manchester when they met the Manchester United Club players as well. Kamboj was impressive for India A against England Lions.
Kamboj's numbers in games against England Lions
24-year-old Kamboj played two games against England Lions. In the first game, he took just one wicket for 69 runs. In the second game, he took two wickets each in both innings. In addition, he scored an unbetaen half-century from 86 balls.
So far, Kamboj has played 24 first-class games. He has 79 wickets at an average of 22.88, including two five-wicket hauls. With the bat, he has 486 runs from 34 innings at an average of 16.20, including a half-century.
How Arshdeep got injured?
Arshdeep, who is yet to make his Test debut, got injured trying to stop a ball during a training session. India's assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate gave an update last week.
"We'll take a call on the combination we play, particularly given the Arshdeep situation as well, we'll make that call closer to Manchester. He took a ball while he was bowling. It’s just a cut, so we have to see how bad the cut is. Obviously the medical team has taken him off to see a doctor and obviously if he needs stitches or doesn't need stitches that's going to be important to our planning for the next few days,” Ten Doeschate had said.
India's updated squad for fourth Test against England -
Shubman Gill (c), Rishabh Pant (wk & vc), 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
England's Test squad for Manchester Test -
Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Liam Dawson, Josh Tongue, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethell.