Left-arm rapid bowler Jaydev Unadkat has been added to the Indian Check squad for the two-match sequence in opposition to Bangladesh. Unadkat, who powered Saurashtra to the Vijay Hazare Trophy triumph just lately, has been referred to as up as an alternative for Mohammed Shami – dominated out of the sequence because of a bowling arm rigidity.

Unadkat’s handiest look up to now within the longest structure was once virtually precisely 12 years in the past, as a teen directly out of India Beneath 19 aspect, within the first Check of the 2010-11 excursion of South Africa. In that Check, in Centurion, he completed with figures of none for 101 as India misplaced by way of an innings and 25 runs.

In the meantime, there are probabilities of common skipper Rohit Sharma becoming a member of the squad forward of 2d Check (December 22-26). He suffered a ‘blow on his left thumb’ all over the second one ODI in Dhaka on December 7. Within the first Check (December 14-18), KL Rahul will likely be main the aspect.

Abhimanyu Easwaran, who led India A within the two-match sequence in opposition to Bangladesh, has been named as a canopy for Rohit within the first Check.

India’s most likely squad for the primary Check:

KL Rahul (c), Shubman Gill, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk, vc), KS Bharat (wk), Saurabh Kumar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Jaydev Unadkat, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav.