Ashwin to rejoin Indian team in Rajkot

Offspinner R Ashwin will rejoin the Indian team in Rajkot on the fourth day of the ongoing third Test against England, the BCCI has confirmed. He had left the city after play on the second day because of personal reasons and missed the third day's play entirely. "The Leading group of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is satisfied to declare the arrival of R Ashwin to the crew after a short nonattendance because of a family crisis," it said in a proclamation. "Both R Ashwin and the group the executives are satisfied to affirm that he will be back in real life on Day 4 and will keep on contributing towards the group's goal in the continuous Test match. Ashwin and his family generously demand security as they explore through these difficult times." ESPNcricinfo comprehends that he could be in Rajkot by lunch. Ashwin will be accessible to bowl when he is required notwithstanding having gone through a whole three day weekend the field. The umpires can defer the necessity of punishment time assuming they feel the player was off the field for "other entirely adequate reasons, which will exclude disease or interior injury" as indicated by the playing conditions. Ashwin had taken his 500th wicket in Test cricket on the second day of the Rajkot Test and went to the question and answer session after play. It was exclusively at 11pm IST that the insight about Ashwin having left the group became public by means of an assertion from the BCCI. The third day's play had started with Britain on 207 for 2 out of 35 overs because of India's first-innings all out of 445, with opener Ben Duckett batting on a hundred 133 at in excess of a run a ball. India, nonetheless, retaliated regardless of Ashwin's nonappearance, taking eight wickets for 112 sudden spikes in demand for the third day to get a first-innings lead of 126. India's hitters had stretched out that to 322 for the deficiency of just two second-innings wickets by stumps, with Yashasvi Jaiswal scoring 104 preceding resigning hurt with a back niggle and Shubman Gill unbeaten on 65.