XtraTime Web Desk: The All-India Senior Selection Committee met in Nottingham to pick the Indian Cricket Team for the remaining two Tests of the ongoing five-match Test series against England. They have picked young sensation Prithvi Shaw along with middle-order batsman Hanuma Vihari for the final two test matches.
They have dropped opening batsman Murali Vijaywho is currently out of form. Kuldeep Yadav was also left out of the team and will be part of the India A squad for the four-day game against Australia A The rest of the team remained the same as the first three Tests.
Shaw has been in the radar since he played for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy semifinal at the age of 16 during the 2016-17 season. After that he played in 14 first-class matches and scored 1,418 runs. In this period he scored seven tons and five half-centuries. Prithvi also scored 603 runs in 10 innings during his England tour for England A.
India’s squad for the fourth and fifth Tests against England: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Karun Nair, Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya, Ishant Sharma, Mohd. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Hanuma Vihari