• India suffer double injury setback

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    India have suffered two major blows with bowler Ravindra Jadeja and key batsman KL Rahul ruled out of the second Test against England.

    Rohit Sharma’s India lost the nail-biting first Test by 28 runs in Hyderabad on Sunday after being ahead in the match for most of the opening three days.

    India are due to play England in the second of the five-match series in Visakhapatnam starting Friday.

    Sarfaraz Khan, Saurabh Kumar and Washington Sundar have been added to India’s squad, the BCCI said in a statement.

    “Jadeja sustained a hamstring injury during play on day four of the first Test in Hyderabad while Rahul complained of a right quadriceps pain,” the BCCI said.

    India Test squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat (wk), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Avesh Khan, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Washington Sundar, Saurabh Kumar

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