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Wales Cricket Board: Right-handed batter Harry Brook will be missing England's Test tour of India with immediate effect due to personal reasons, said the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

It added that Brook, who was in England’s preparatory camp for the India tour at Abu Dhabi, will not be returning to India and that a replacement player will be named in due course. England are due to arrive in Hyderabad on Sunday, ahead of the first Test starting on January 25.

“Harry Brook is set to return home with immediate effect for personal reasons from the England Men’s Test tour of India. He will not be returning to India. The Brook family respectfully requests privacy during this time.”