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New Delhi, 21 February (HS). Jasprit Bumrah has been rested from the fourth Test against England starting from February 23 in Ranchi. KL Rahul, who missed the second and third Tests, is likely to miss the fourth Test as well, while his participation in the final Test in Dharamsala is subject to fitness.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in an official statement on Tuesday night that the decision to give Bumrah a break has been taken keeping in mind his workload – he has bowled 80.5 overs in the first three Tests – after the IPL season ends on June 1. The 2024 T20 World Cup will start. There was speculation that Bumrah was going to be rested for the third Test in Rajkot, but with the series tied at 1–1, he eventually played the match.
Mukesh Kumar, who was released from the team for the third Test in Rajkot, has joined the team in Ranchi. After his release, he played a Ranji Trophy match for Bengal against Bihar, where he gave the best performance of his career by taking 10 wickets for 50 runs and led Bengal to a big win.
India now lead the five-match series 2-1 after a record 434-run win in Rajkot, and they will have to find a way to compensate for Bumrah's absence: he is the leading wicket-taker in the series with 17 wickets at an average of 13.64. Are. He was player of the match in India's victory in the second Test in Visakhapatnam, where he took 9 for 91 in both innings.
The fourth Test between India and England begins this Friday, just four days after the end of the third Test, while there is a gap of eight days between the end of the fourth Test on February 27 and the start of the fifth and final Test. The fifth match is starting from 7th March.
Indian team for the fourth Test: Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wk), KS Bharat (wk), Devdutt Padikkal, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep.