Nitish in danger of ruled out of the remainder of Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy
The Hindu understands that the all-rounder underwent scans, which revealed ligament damage, and the BCCI medical team is currently monitoring the situation before making a decision about his future.
Nitish skipped the team's visit to Manchester United FC, and also could not be spotted in the optional practice session.
With the series on the line, this comes as a huge blow. With Jasprit Bumrah's workload in question, Arshdeep Singh suffering a cut on his bowling hand and Akash Deep unlikely to attain full fitness before the fourth Test, beginning on Wednesday, the Indian think-tank now faces a major challenge. Anshul Kamboj linked up with the team in Manchester on Sunday, after being named as a back-up for Arshdeep.
After sitting out of the series-opener in Leeds, Nitish played the second and third Tests. Though he failed to make an impact in Birmingham, with two runs and no wickets, he took crucial wickets of Ben Duckett and Zake Crawley at Lord's in the first innings, while dismissing Crawley again in the second essay.
So far, India has played a seam-bowling all-rounder, with Shardul Thakur playing the first Test before Nitish featured in the other two.
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