India will go into the fourth Test match of the series with at least one change as Wriddhiman Saha will take over the wicket-keeping responsibilities from Indian captain MS Dhoni. Dhoni was banned for one Test match because of slow over-rates in the third Test match at Perth, where the team had gone into the match with four pace bowlers.
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India will go into the fourth Test match of the series with Wriddhiman Saha as their main wicket-keeper.
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Saha has played a Test match before this but that was in 2010 when he was inducted as a replacement for a batsman, not as a full-time wicket-keeper. It was a match against South Africa and the team had gone in with six frontline batsmen only. One of them, VVS Laxman injured himself on the eve of the Test match, which meant that the selectors had to recruit in Rohit Sharma at the 11th hour.
Sharma himself was injured before the match and that meant that the Indians decided to play Saha as a pure batsman for that match.
The wicket-keeper from Bengal was bowled for a duck in the first innings but showed much grit in getting to 36 in his second essay and has since been a part of the Test squad as a backup keeper. He will thus get his first chance as a keeper-batsman in a Test match.
India are already down 3-0 in the series and will be playing for pride when they take on Australia at Adelaide from January 24.
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