India's last practice session before the second Test [they are not training today] finished with a fitness test for Ravindra Jadeja. Team India's physio Nitin Patel and the conditioning coach Nick Webb asked Jadeja to sprint twos and threes down the pitch and monitored the timing. Jadeja didn't seem hampered by the hamstring injury and within a couple of runs, all three members left the practice nets quietly satisfied.

Jadeja will come into the playing XI and could bat as high as No. 6. Stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane is a fan of having a fifth bowling option and Jadeja's batting has been on the rise in the last couple of years.