IND vs ENG: India Look To Focus On Finer Details In ODIs Against England
After over a month of stay in Ahmedabad, the Indian and English teams will battle for the last leg of their ongoing full series here with the three-match ODI series that begins on Tuesday. In a year w
With Bhuvneshwar Kumar returning to the side and playing a man-of-the-match role in the last T20 match on a batting-friendly pitch and Shardul Thakur, who did well in the last ODI in Australia, continuing his form and being deceptive with his change of pace like Bhuvneshwar, India seem to be in safe hands.
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Shikhar Dhawan will return to open with Rohit Sharma in the first match and all eyes will be on the new faces Suryakumar Yadav, who did well in the T20 series, and M. Prasidh Krishna, who is gearing up for his first international. Rishabh Pant too has been included after missing the one-day series in Australia.
England are the current world champions but things haven't been going too well for them. Pace bowler Jofra Archer is injured and will miss the ODI series and the initial phase of the IPL to be fit for the World T20 as well as the Ashes.
Pace bowler Mark Wood, who did well in the first few T20 games proved expensive in the last couple of games on wickets deprived of pace and even bounce.
The biggest challenge for both teams will be adapting to the new atmosphere. Both teams have spent significant time in two venues. While they spent about three weeks in Chennai for the first two Tests, they spent over a month in Ahmedabad for two Tests and five T20 Internationals.
"Good to be here in Pune. Always been a venue that produces good cricket-wickets. A lot of runs on offer. (But) Bowlers who can bowl well can get wickets. We are looking forward to a good contest and probably a very solid start to the one-day series as well," skipper Kohli said on Monday.
Squads:
India: Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), KL Rahul (wicket-keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Md Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Shardul Thakur.
England: Eoin Morgan (captain), Moeen Ali, Jonathan Bairstow, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Liam Livingstone, Matt Parkinson, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, Mark Wood.
