Graham Onions will be a part of the England squad for the fourth Test at The Oval, after Chris Tremlett was ruled out and James Anderson emerge as a new wound worry.
Anderson's leg injury is describe at this stage as "minor", but his unavailability would obviously be a major blow to England's hopes of closing out a 4-0 whitewash of India.
Twenty-eight-year-old Onions has not played a Test match since New Year 2010, mostly because of a long-term and once career-threatening back injury.
Tremlett was named in England's early 13-man squad for the final match of the series, having missed both the second and third Tests at Trent Bridge and then Edgbaston - where his team-mates beaten India to take their country to the top of the
International Cricket Council rankings for the first time.
But the Surrey fast bowler has succumbed again to the same back problem which ruled him out at Nottingham as well as then Birmingham.
Anderson has experienced tension in his right quadriceps, and an England and Wales Cricket Board statement report that his circumstance will "continue to be monitored over the next 48 hours".
National selector Geoff Miller explains both the reasons for Tremlett's unavailability, and Anderson's concern.
"Unhappily
Chris Tremlett has unsuccessful a fitness test and won't be accessible for selection for the fourth power Test, despite showing strong signs of revival over the past few days," he said.
"Chris' absence, in combination with what appears to be a minor injury concern with Jimmy Anderson, has led to a call-up for Graham Onions as defensive bowling cover.
"We are optimistic that Jimmy will overcome this niggle by Thursday, but more time is necessary before a decision on his accessibility can be made conclusively.
"Steven Finn is clearly in the squad and he is now connected by
Graham Onions, who has been in good form for Durham since recurring from a back injury at the start of the season."
Onions, who played three Ashes Tests to help England regain the urn in his first appearance summer in 2009, achieve greater fame as a number 11 batsman - twice blocking out the final over to recover nail-biting draws on the 2009/10 tour of South Africa.
But his disobedience in the second of those matches at Cape Town is his most new act as an England player.
He was rested for the final Test of that series, as England lost at The Wanderers, and then suffered a wound which ruled him out of the next campaign in Bangladesh.
Anderson has become England's unquestioned pace lead over the past two years, and has so far taken 18 India wickets in three matches this summer.
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