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Jigneshbharati Posted 7 years ago
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For the third Test

India have dropped both their under performing openers - KL Rahul and Murali Vijay - for the third Test against Australia in Melbourne.
Mayank Agarwal to debut; Rahul, Vijay dropped for Boxing Day Test - Cricbuzz

for_1 preposition - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/for_1?q=For
Is it no 3 definition:concerning somebody/something?
Please explain the use of the preposition "for" in "for the third Test...

  

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I think the meaning of "for" here seems closest to # 2 here:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/for

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