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India vs Australia: Nitish Kumar Reddy is acceptable to play arsenic India's 4th seamer successful Perth. (PTI)
All-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy is apt to get his maiden Test headdress for the archetypal Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy starting successful Perth from Friday arsenic the Indian squad absorption is apt to play him arsenic 4th seamer. Perth’s Optus Stadium is expected to person bounce and transportation and Reddy could beryllium the close acceptable to enactment up the accelerated bowling department.
Jasprit Bumrah, the vice-captain, acceptable to pb the squad successful Rohit Sharma’s absence, Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana, Aakash Deep and Prasidh Krishna are the accelerated bowlers successful the squad. Mohammed Shami, who made a comeback successful Ranji Trophy aft an ankle injury, is not portion of the squad.
With Hardik Pandya not successful the Test squad, Reddy is the lone pace-bowling all-rounder successful the squad for the five-match Test series.
Shardul Thakur, who had featured successful India’s erstwhile circuit of Australia has fallen down the pecking order.
During the pre-departure property conference, manager Gambhir said: “The determination to prime Reddy up of Shardul is besides astir moving forward. I deliberation we’ve picked the champion squad who tin bash the occupation for us. We each cognize however incredibly talented Nitish Reddy is and if fixed an option, helium volition present for us.”
The Andhra Pradesh batting-all-rounder has played 21 first-class games and has deed 1 century, 2 fifties and taken 56 wickets. He besides impressed portion playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad during the IPL.
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