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Yadav Out India Mull Pace Debutant At SCG (view source)
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<br>India's pace bowling depth is set to be tested in their final two Tests against Australia, with Umesh Yadav to miss the rest of the series.<br> <br>Yadav tweaked a calf muscle during India's series-levelling victory in the Boxing Day Test.<br> <br>The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Friday the 33-year-old, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-ha-giang-cao-nguyen-da-dong-van-3-ngay-2-dem.html tour hà giang 3 ngày 2 đêm] who is the most experienced member of the tourists' pace attack, will return home for rehab and miss the remaining two Tests, at the SCG and Gabba.<br> <br>Veteran paceman Ishant Sharma (side strain) and enforcer Mohammed Shami (broken arm), who would ordinarily join spearhead Jasprit Bumrah in India's full-strength XI, are also unavailable.<br> <br>Yadav's setback will increase the burden on Bumrah at the SCG, where the series resumes on Thursday.<br> <br>However, right-armer Mohammed Siraj impressed on Test debut at the MCG.<br> <br>Siraj claimed the key wickets of Travis Head and Cameron Green during Australia's final innings of the second Test, stepping up after Yadav was restricted to just 21 deliveries.<br> <br>Would-be debutant Navdeep Saini and Shardul Thakur headline the list of contenders to replace Yadav.<br> <br>Thangarasu Natarajan, who made his ODI and Twenty20 debuts for India at the start of their current [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-ha-giang-cao-nguyen-da-dong-van-3-ngay-2-dem.html tour hà giang 3 ngày 2 đêm], remained here as a net bowler and he has now been added to the Test squad, with some media outlets suggesting he could be a shock inclusion in Sydney.<br> <br>Kuldeep Yadav, who counts Shane Warne among his admirers, is another option but it would have to be a remarkably spin-friendly surface for the left-arm tweaker to play alongside Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja.<br> <br>Meanwhile, the BCCI has posted a clip of Rohit Sharma training and joining the squad in Melbourne after spending a fortnight in hotel quarantine.<br> <br>"How was quarantine, my friend? You're looking younger," coach Ravi Shastri said in the video.<br> <br>Shastri indicated after the second Test that Sharma's fitness will determine whether the veteran batsman plays at the SCG.<br> <br>Sharma, who would likely replace Mayank [http://wordpress.org/search/Agarwal Agarwal] at the top of the order if recalled, missed the first two Tests because of a hamstring injury he suffered during the Indian Premier League.<br> <br>India captain Virat Kohli has returned home for the birth of his first child and will play no further part in the series.<br>
