Simon Jones Shaun Udal, Ian Blackwell and Monty Panesar are ill with a stomach bug.
England are assured of qualification for the next stage unless they lose to Australia by more than 50 runs and Kevin Pietersen is relishing the challenge ahead.
India made one change, including Gautam Gambhir in place of seamer R P Singh.
India made one change in the team by bringing in Ajit Agarkar in place paceman Munaf Patel.
Statistical highlights on the fourth day of the first Test between India and England inj Chennai on Sunday.
A stunning fifty by Virender Sehwag set up India's confident chase of 387 in the first Test after twin hundreds enabled England put up a challenging target. At stumps on day four in Chennai on Sunday, India were strongly placed at 131 for one with opener Gautam Gambhir on a gritty 41 along with Rahul Dravid (2). They still need 256 for victory.
England opener Andrew Strauss became only the seventh opening batsman to score a hundred and a fifty in the same match against India in India.
Andrew Strauss narrowly missed a hundred as England amassed 268 for 4 on Day 1 of the first Test.
England will be looking for some big scores from Ian Bell, Andrew Strauss and Paul Collingwood during the Test series against India.
After being dismissed for 225, England bowled out the West Indies for 145 in the 40th over, in the first ODI.
West Indies took advantage of some wayward England bowling to win the first Twenty20 international by 16 runs.
A century in each Test of the Bangladesh series propelled the ace batsman to 15th position in the ICC rankings.
Kevin Pietersen celebrated his first Test as England captain with a consolation six-wicket victory over South Africa in the fourth and final Test on Monday.
Kevin Pietersen's inventive 110 not out, which included two unorthodox left-handed sixes, helped steer England to a 114-run win over New Zealand in the first one-day international at Durham on Sunday. England took the lead in the five-match series after the Kiwis, replying to England's 307 for five, failed to threaten their target and were all out for 193. Brendon McCullum top-scored with 36 while Paul Collingwood took four for 15.
England crashed to an embarrassing 166-run loss to the Australian Prime Minister's XI.
Kevin Pietersen scored a fine century as England ended Day 1 in the third Test against New Zealand on 240 for 7. New Zealand debutant pace bowler Tim Southee had made a dream start, taking two wickets in his first spell as England slumped to 58 for four at lunch and 150 for six at tea.
England crawled to 286 for 6 at the close on the third day of the first Test. They trail their hosts by 184 runs with two days to play.
England kept the five-match series alive by beating New Zealand by six wickets in the third one-dayer in Auckland on Friday.
Michael Vaughan scored 87 and Alastair Cook 81 to help England to 258 for five at stumps on the first day of the second Test against Sri Lanka on Sunday.
He will stand-in for Andrew Flintoff, who went home after the Test series to see his newborn son
England's build-up to their one-day series in Sri Lanka has been hit by a stomach virus sweeping through the squad.
The Aussies won the Group B match at the Twenty20 World Cup by 8 wickets and entered the Super Eight stage.
Nasser Hussain pulls out due to a virus while Kaluwitharana is dropped for an extra spinner.
"At this stage of my career... I don't think it's the right time for me yet," the batsman told reporters.
England were skittled for 180 on the stroke of tea, having no answer to the pace of Dale Steyn on the first day of the fourth and final Test against South Africa on Thursday.
Three English batsmen scored centuries as England Day 2 on 553 for five, in the first Test.
England beat New Zealand by 14 runs at the Gabba in Brisbane on Tuesday to join Australia in the tri-series one-day international finals
England scored 242 for eight from 50 overs in the first match of the one-day tri-series against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday.
England's cricketers say they still have a long way to go to win the second Ashes Test against Australia.
England picked up the crucial wicket of Langer to reduce Australia to 28 for one after posting a daunting total of 551-6.
Ian Bell made 132 and Paul Collingwood scored 80 on the second day of England's tour game against South Australia.
Vikram Solanki struck a watchful 62 but Zimbabwe restricted England to 198 for five before play was abandoned for the day.
The New Zealand skipper scored 99 in a six-wicket win over England.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Thursday became the sixth Indian and 30th in the world to take 200 wickets in one-day internationals when he removed Owais Shah of England in the third one-dayer in Kanpur.
Pakistan won the third and final Test against England by an innings and 100 runs to take the series 2-0.
Bell and Collingwood steered England to 121 for two at the end of day four.
England lost four wickets for 30 runs either side of tea to close on 163 for four, still 219 adrift of the Sri Lankan total.
England were 39 for 6 in their second innings at close on the second day of the three-day match against the Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI.
24-year-old Zak Crawley faces he axe after scores of 9 and 13 at Lord's, where South Africa triumphed by an innings and 12 runs inside three days to grab a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
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