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NEW DELHI: Left-arm spinner Axar Patel or off-spinner Jayant Yadav could be summoned as the 15th member of the Indian team due to Ravindra Jadeja’s suspension from the third Test against Sri Lanka, starting August 12.
While Kuldeep is a certainty in the playing XI for the final Test match, the team management wants to keep a cover for the young chinaman bowler.
Chairman of selectors MSK Prasad is currently in Pallekele for the third Test and is expected to take a call after discussions with coach Ravi Shastri and captain Virat Kohli. Axar is currently in South Africa, where he is playing the tri-nation one day series of the A teams. “Since Axar will be finishing his one day engagements by Tuesday evening, he can join the team by Thursday (August 10).
