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Onions brought in to replace injured Woakes

October 19, 2011 13:48 IST

Durham pacer Graham Onions [ Images ] will replace injured seamer Chris Woakes in the England [ Images ] squad for the last two ODIs and the one-off Twenty20 [ Images ] against India [ Images ], the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has stated.

Graham OnionsWoakes was ruled out of the tour due to a left quadriceps strain.

"Woakes suffered the injury on Sunday during England practice in Delhi [ Images ] and will now undertake rehabilitation period that rules him out of the remaining three ODIs against India," the ECB stated.

Onions will join the squad in Mumbai [ Images ] ahead of the fourth ODI on October 23. The 22-year-old Woakes didn't feature in the playing XI during the first two internationals even though he played in the couple of warm-up games against Hyderabad XI.

In the first warm-up game, he scored 46 not out and grabbed two for 30 while in the second game he went for 28 runs without picking a wicket.

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