Former captain Michael Vaughan has said Nitish Kumar Reddy’s injury has potentially given Team India all-rounder Shardul Thakur a last chance to seal his career. He returned to the playing XI for the fourth Test against England at Old Trafford, Manchester, and came out to bat in the dying stages of Day 1 as well.

“It feels to me that it could be the last chance saloon (for Thakur). Sometimes, when you are not expected to play, and then you get a chance to play, you produce a bit of magic. He played well tonight with the bat, but his style of bowling on this kind of surface historically has not been that popular,” Vaughan said on Cricbuzz.

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“It was a good move actually (bringing back Sai Sudharsan). I thought at the start of the day’s play that it’s a bit harsh on Karun Nair, but then I thought you have to look to the future, and he is going to be around the Indian Test team, probably the Indian teams, for a lot more years,” he added.

However, Sai Sudharsan’s former Tamil Nadu state teammate Dinesh Karthik said that the youngster deserves enough time at No. 3 to cement his spot, and urged the team management not to be too harsh with him as well.

“I genuinely wish he is given a long run at No. 3, because he is playing in one of the toughest conditions that he is going to face. It was ovecast, it was not easy to bat on Day 1 here, and he did fight it out. In fact, I don’t think he brought out a lot of the shots, it was all about defence,” Dinesh Karthik said.