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India skipper Virat Kohli is unlikely to face his nemesis James Anderson in the fourth Test at The Oval as the veteran England pace bowler could be rested and return only for the fifth Test in Manchester.
Anderson has completed dominated his battle with the Indian captain who has shown great vulnerability outside the off stump in the swinging conditions in England.
But the busy Test schedule might force the England management to rest the 39-year-old Anderson for the fourth Test.
The quick turnaround in the last three Test matches is forcing both the teams to rotate bowlers. While India have already made it clear, the English team could also go that way.
“What I don’t want to do is break them. We’ve got a lot of cricket in front of us. The Tests are coming thick and fast now. Back-to-back, it is difficult,” said England head coach Chris Silverwood to the media while pointing out the workload of his two new-ball bowlers, Anderson and Ollie Robinson.
At the age of 39, Anderson has already bowled more number of overs in the first three Tests than any of the Indian seamers has bowled.
He has bowled 116.3 which is just two balls less than Ollie Robinson (116.5), who has bowled the most in the series.
“These guys are giving everything, every day when we are out on the field and we have got to make sure we are looking after them. But I won’t be making any decisions or judgments right now,” he added.
Anderson though had made it clear prior to the series that he wants to play every Test match in the series. Even though he had niggle in the lead-up to the second Test at Lord’s, he turned up to perform.
He was unplayable in the first innings of the third Test at Headingley.
But considering England have a long summer during the Ashes series Down Under and with Jofra Archer under injury cloud, England may rest Anderson for one of the next two Tests as part of workload management.
With the last Test to be played at Anderson’s home ground at Old Trafford in Manchester from September 10, it is likely that the England team management will play him there rather than at The Oval.
Silverwood, though, admitted it will be hard to convince Anderson to miss the fourth Test.
England also face a problem as their left-arm pace bowler Sam Curran is not performing well and is leaking runs whenever he has been brought on to bowl with the old ball.
He may be replaced by Chris Woakes, who is fit again and has been added to the England squad.
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