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 London,
July 24: England have announced an unchanged team for the second
cricket Test against India as their experienced pace bowler
Matthew Hoggard was still to recover fully from a back injury
ahead of the match starting at Trent Bridge ground, Nottingham,
on Friday. Hoggard had also missed the drawn opener at Lord's
due to back spasms and selectors feel he is yet to regain full
fitness.
"We did not consider Matthew Hoggard for this
(second) Test match on cricketing grounds. He is making progress
in his recovery from a back injury and came through a
preliminary fitness test at the ECB National Cricket Centre
today (Monday)," said chairman of selectors David Graveney.
Graveney said he was impressed with the
performance of an England bowling attack, which was sans
experienced trio of Hoggard, Andrew Flintoff and Stephen
Harmison. "There were many positive aspects to our performance
in the first Test and we were particularly impressed by the
efforts of our inexperienced bowling attack against high-quality
opposition," he said.
Chris Tremlett, a late replacement for
Hoggard, in the squad for the first Test, retained his place.
Squad: Michael Vaughan (Captain),
Andrew Strauss, Alastair Cook, Kevin Pietersen, Paul
Collingwood, Ian Bell, Matt Prior (wk), Ryan Sidebottom, Chris
Tremlett, Monty Panesar, James Anderson, Stuart Broad.
(Agencies)
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