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#India has been dealt yet another major blow to its #Border-Gavaskar campaign with fast bowler #Umesh #Yadav ruled out of the series with a calf strain.
ESPNCricinfo reports that #Yadav has withdrawn from the final two #Tests, joining on the sidelines #Mohammad #Shami (broken arm), #Ishant #Sharma (side) and captain #Virat #Kohli (paternity leave).
#Yadav left the MCG during day three of the #Boxing #Day #Test and was unable to return with scans revealing his series is over.
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#India must now find yet another fast bowling replacement having handed #Mohammed #Siraj his debut in #Melbourne for #Shami, who broke his arm in the first #Test.
#Despite missing #Shami and #Kohli in #Melbourne, #India comfortably won the second #Test to level the four-match series 1-1.
#Nonetheless, the tourists’ highly-rated bowling attack — which guided #India to a 2-1 win in 2018-19 — is now down to the bare bones with only #Jasprit #Bumrah still available from that fast-bowling group.
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#Navdeep #Saini is already part of #India’s squad and could take #Yadav’s spot in the XI, while #Shardul #Thakur, T #Natarajan and #Kartik #Tyagi are touring as net bowlers.
#Only #Thakur has a #Test cap for #India, playing one match in #October 2018 in which he was injured and didn’t bowl an over.
#Yadav’s departure will be positive news for an #Australian side struggling with the bat all series having failed to make more than 200 runs.
#However, #India’s main weapons with the ball, #Bumrah and #Ravichandran #Ashwin, are still it and firing with the decisive third-Test looming.
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