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England tour of India (2021)

Ben stokes and root are the main men.
Ben stokes is a miracle man and when he performs the entire English team somehow becomes more invigorated.
He has to be tied down by Indian spinners and he can reverse swing the bowl at good speed.
Exciting series
 
King_Kohli said:
Hardhik is five times better player than Sundar, even as a specialist batsman.
We are underestimating him just after one series.
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I never underestimated Hardik's ability. But he should be fit enough to bowl to play in the test XI.

No doubt talented but arrogant as well and hence not my cup of tea. Unlike Jadeja, he is not a team man. He should look to become fully fit, did bowled five overs in an ODI game in Australia but it does not help when you have Pandya in your XI but you can't use him as 5th bowling option in test or as 6th bowling option in ODIs.
 
T Natarajan is not selected for the England Test series because he has taken paternity leave.
 
Net bowlers for the first two Tests against England.

Ankit Rajpoot,
Avesh Khan,
Sandeep Warrier,
Krishnappa Gowtham,
Saurabh Kumar
 
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Stand byes for England series.

KS Bharat,
Abhimanyu Easwaran,
Shahbaz Nadeem,
Rahul Chahar
 
India's squad for the first two Test against England:

Virat Kohli (C)
Rohit Sharma
Shubman Gill
Mayank Agarwal
Pujara
Rahane
Pant
Saha
Pandya
KL Rahul
Bumrah
Ishant
Siraj
Thakur
Ashwin
Kuldeep
Washington Sundar
Axar Patel.
 
King_Kohli said:
India's squad for the first two Test against England:

Virat Kohli (C)
Rohit Sharma
Shubman Gill
Mayank Agarwal
Pujara
Rahane
Pant
Saha
Pandya
KL Rahul
Bumrah
Ishant
Siraj
Thakur
Ashwin
Kuldeep
Washington Sundar
Axar Patel.
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Good team. One pacer looks less though.
 
Good to see Ishant back but Umesh and Jaddu will be missed badly.

Big pressure on Ashwin and Bumrah to pick wickets as they're just coming off from niggles. And so is Ishant....

Hope one out of Sundar/Kuldeep step up.
 
Ab Fan said:
We need two spinners. You never know they may play Shardul as bowling all-rounder and pick two specialist spinners lol.
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What you think about my five bowlers pick in final XI?
Bumrah
Ishant
Siraj
Ashwin
Sundar
 
Welcoming [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] to predict the final outcome of this series.
:)
 
King_Kohli said:
What you think about my five bowlers pick in final XI?
Bumrah
Ishant
Siraj
Ashwin
Sundar
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I expect the same. Also, Bumrah should be rested after first two tests assuming Umesh or Shami comes back.
 
After the emotional high of Border-Gavaskar Trophy and being in bio-bubble since early August I am expecting a dip in performance. This series will be closely fought, English team can annoy the hell out of us especially by batting for long periods. Their best chance will be the D/N test.

No Jadeja, Shami, Umesh, not ideal since Bumrah and Ashwin seem to be carrying niggles.
 
Jaddu and Umesh is a big miss here.. guess will play Sundar?
Hopefully Siraj can come good in India too
 
Considering the workload and injuries, we need five bowlers for sure. Along with Ashwin we need one more bowling alrounder either Shardul or Axar.
I would pick

Rohit
Gill
Pujara
Kohli
Rahane
Pant
Ashwin
Axar/Kuldeep
Siraj/Shardul
Ishanth
Bumrah
 
The England National Selectors have named a 16-strong squad and six travelling reserves for the first and second Test matches against India starting on Friday 5th February at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

England Men’s Test Squad:

Joe Root (Yorkshire) (captain), Jofra Archer (Sussex), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), James Anderson (Lancashire), Dom Bess (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Rory Burns (Surrey), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Zak Crawley (Kent), Ben Foakes (Surrey), Dan Lawrence (Essex), Jack Leach (Somerset), Dom Sibley (Warwickshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Olly Stone (Warwickshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire).

Reserves:

James Bracey (Gloucestershire), Mason Crane (Hampshire), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Matthew Parkinson (Lancashire), Ollie Robinson (Sussex), Amar Virdi (Surrey).

Jofra Archer, Rory Burns and Ben Stokes return to the squad. Archer and Stokes were rested for the Sri Lanka series and Burns was at home for the birth of his first child.

Surrey’s Ollie Pope will travel to India and will be added to the squad when passed fit. Pope is recovering from a shoulder injury sustained in September during the Test series against Pakistan.

The National Selectors have provided a block of rest for Jonathan Bairstow, Sam Curran and Mark Wood. The three players, who are currently in Sri Lanka, will miss the first and second Tests in India.

This is consistent with the selection policy of finding a block of rest for all multi-format players at some point during post-Christmas winter schedule.

With Archer and Stokes returning, and subject to fitness of the rest of the squad, Somerset’s Craig Overton will return home after the Sri Lanka series.

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England Tour of India

Tests

Friday 5-9 February: 1st Test – India v England, MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai


Saturday 13-17 February: 2nd Test – India v England, MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai


Wednesday 24-28 February: 3rd Test - India v England, Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad


Thursday 4-8 March: 4th Test – India v England, Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad

T20Is

Friday 12 March: 1st T20I – India v England, Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad

Sunday 14 March: 2nd T20I – India v England, Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad

Tuesday 16 March: 3rd T20I - India v England, Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad

Thursday 18 March: 4th T20I - India v England, Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad

Saturday 20 March: 5th T20I - India v England, Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad

ODIs

Tuesday 23 March: 1st ODI - India v England, MCA Stadium, Pune

Friday 26 March: 2nd ODI - India v England, MCA Stadium, Pune

Sunday 28 March: 3rd ODI - India v England, MCA Stadium, Pune

Monday 29 March: Touring party departs India
 
Ab Fan said:
Why is Sam Curran not selected? I am missing him :inti
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Yeah, he was our nemesis during our last England series. He was the difference between the 2 sides.

May be, he'd have proved to be a cannon fodder on Indian pitches.
 
No Sam Curran? Come on.

Was so looking forward to him bowling to Rohit, Kohli, Gill and Pant on Indian wickets.

:sree
 
Mesozoic said:
No Sam Curran? Come on.

Was so looking forward to him bowling to Rohit, Kohli, Gill and Pant on Indian wickets.

:sree
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He will be back to spoiling the party in England summer though :sree
 
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Really surprised at their decision to rest Jonny and Wood.

Bairstow is a very good player of spin bowling and could have played that aggressor role in the middle order to put Ash/Kuly off their lengths.

And Wood would have played a Umesh Yadav type role with his express pace. Jimmy and Woakes are useless for 3/4 Tests.
 
England XI:-

Sibley
Crawley
Root
Lawrence
Stokes
Buttler(wkt)
Woakes
Bess
Broad
Archer
Leech
 
Ab Fan said:
England XI:-

Sibley
Crawley
Root
Lawrence
Stokes
Buttler(wkt)
Woakes
Bess
Broad
Archer
Leech
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Burns will open. Crawley/Pope at 4 and Lawrence at 5. Or they'll play Moeen at 7 definitely not Woakes.

Woakes and Anderson are just there for the Pink ball Test and enjoy dosas and dhoklas for the rest of the tour.
 
Mesozoic said:
Burns will open. Crawley/Pope at 4 and Lawrence at 5. Or they'll play Moeen at 7 definitely not Woakes.

Woakes and Anderson are just there for the Pink ball Test and enjoy dosas and dhoklas for the rest of the tour.
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Where will Stokes go then? He is still unproven vs spin but must play in the England side.

Stokes will bat at 5, Buttler or Foakes to keep at 6 and an all-rounder at 7. This basically means Lawrence/Pope at 4, Root at 3 and openers will be Sibley and Crawley. Burns will be eaten alive by Ash.
 
Ab Fan said:
Where will Stokes go then? He is still unproven vs spin but must play in the England side.

Stokes will bat at 5, Buttler or Foakes to keep at 6 and an all-rounder at 7. This basically means Lawrence/Pope at 4, Root at 3 and openers will be Sibley and Crawley. Burns will be eaten alive by Ash.
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Stokes at 6. Why would they need another all rounder if they already have him?

Broad
Archer
Leach
Bess
Stokes

This'll be their bowling attack.
 
[MENTION=139595]Ab Fan[/MENTION] they'll surely start with Burns. They won't drop him based on a fear/speculation that he'll fail against Ashwin.

If he fails then I think Crawley or Lawrence would be made to open. Even Sibley looks like a dud against spin so we may see a brand new English opening pair at some stage in the series.
 
Mesozoic said:
Really surprised at their decision to rest Jonny and Wood.

Bairstow is a very good player of spin bowling and could have played that aggressor role in the middle order to put Ash/Kuly off their lengths.

And Wood would have played a Umesh Yadav type role with his express pace. Jimmy and Woakes are useless for 3/4 Tests.
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Bairstow's defence, ever since he's become England's regular white ball opener, has totally deteriorated against seam in Tests. He gets bowled way too often for a top order batsman, so your seamers would sort him out before the spinners even get onto bowl.

Wood's injury record means he must be very carefully managed. He's an asset on bouncy pitches hence his record in SAF and WI, but elsewhere his record is meh. England have two quick, "X factor" bowlers anyway in Jofra Archer and Olly Stone who can fill in.
 
Ab Fan said:
England XI:-

Sibley
Crawley
Root
Lawrence
Stokes
Buttler(wkt)
Woakes
Bess
Broad
Archer
Leech
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Replacing Woakes with Moeen and I think that'll be your England lineup.

Possibly Pope in for Lawrence of Arabia but would be harsh to drop him after his performance in Galle.

Burns is another one who I'd worry about against India's seamers. He got dismissed several times last summer with that front pad going well across his stumps making him vulnerable to fuller deliveries. Might as well carry on with Sibley and Crawley, though Sibley lacks release shots against spin.
 
Eng are coming well prepared this time and with Root in form we have our work cut out, Kohli better be in good form!
 
Ab Fan said:
Where will Stokes go then? He is still unproven vs spin but must play in the England side.

Stokes will bat at 5, Buttler or Foakes to keep at 6 and an all-rounder at 7. This basically means Lawrence/Pope at 4, Root at 3 and openers will be Sibley and Crawley. Burns will be eaten alive by Ash.
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Stokes scored a test century on the last tour to India. He looks a sight more secure than Sibley!

The attack should be Broad / Archer / Stokes / Moeen / Leach with Root chipping in.
 
Mesozoic said:
Stokes at 6. Why would they need another all rounder if they already have him?

Broad
Archer
Leach
Bess
Stokes

This'll be their bowling attack.
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Yeah, makes sense. Root can be the sixth bowling option. He will bowl a few overs too.
 
Markhor said:
Replacing Woakes with Moeen and I think that'll be your England lineup.

Possibly Pope in for Lawrence of Arabia but would be harsh to drop him after his performance in Galle.
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I think Woakes will just get whacked on the up in India.
 
England will try hard , but India simply too strong at home , unless India plays bad , England does not have a chance.
 
Should be called India Vs England “the Ahmedabad series” , my goodness.
 
Jadeja out of the series, ok I am officially worried now.

Shami, Umesh, Jadeja are essential to our success at home. Big boots to fill for Bumrah, Siraj, Kuldeep/Washington/Axar.
 
Rahane is abysmal on spinning tracks, so everything depends on Pujara & Kohli.
 
JaDed said:
Should be called India Vs England “the Ahmedabad series” , my goodness.
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MP2011 said:
Is it a surprise to you?
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In a way good to have more matches there, kinda like a dry run. 2023 WC final will be held in this new stadium guarantee, with both fekus in attendance. By then the stadium facilities, infrastructure, quality of pitch should be top-notch.

Generally takes time for the pitch and outfield to settle down, remember first match at new Ranchi stadium and how barren the outfield was? Or the Dehradun stadium where Afghans play, ball barely bounces above knees. So having more matches in Ahmedabad (domestic, IPL and international) is good in that sense, we can't take any chance since the 2023 WC will be a huge event for us.

Also Gujarat seems to be doing a good job in the fight against corona, hopefully we can have some crowd.
 
Jos Buttler to return home after the first Test match against India to take some rest out of the Bio-Bubble. Ben Foakes likely to make his return from the 2nd Test.
 
England squad for the first 2 Test against India:

Root (C)
Archer
Moeen Ali
Anderson
Bess
Broad
Burns
Buttler
Crawley
Foakes
Lawrence
Leach
Sibley
Stokes
Olly Stone
Woakes
 
MP2011 said:
Is it a surprise to you?
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Why not a Chennai series because they are also playing two test at that venue what I understand. There is clear influence obviously to promote the new Ahmedabad infrastructure but then that has happened in past when other boards have exerted influence to host high profile matches. Given that Shah and Srini are now two influential factions on the board this is not surprising. Calcutta, Bombay and Bangalore usually remains at forefront for hosting the high profile matches. The tests in general will be limited to metros and traditional venues because that's were the stadium gets filled for a 5 day match.
 
Bess and Leach both took 5fer in SL so they should play ahead of Moeen.

Burns
Sibley
Crawley
Root
Stokes
Butler
Woakes/Moeen
Archer
Bess
Anderson/Broad
Leach
 
King_Kohli said:
England squad for the first 2 Test against India:

Root (C)
Archer
Moeen Ali
Anderson
Bess
Broad
Burns
Buttler
Crawley
Foakes
Lawrence
Leach
Sibley
Stokes
Olly Stone
Woakes
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Wood and Bairstow are certainly part of their first 11 and not having them can be a factor.

Curran may not be that handy in India specially in Chennai and Ahmedabad. Eden, Dharamsala or Mohali suits Curran more.
 
Need to make pitches where the ball doesn't move an inch off the straight. England's attack is rubbish when there is no lateral movement on offer. Our bowlers, on the other hand, can still take 20 wickets.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Need to make pitches where the ball doesn't move an inch off the straight. England's attack is rubbish when there is no lateral movement on offer. Our bowlers, on the other hand, can still take 20 wickets.
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OTT, Our batsmen are rubbish when there is lateral movement.
 
pillionrider said:
Is this a joke? To include Pandya in the test squad. This guy wanted to spend time with his family after a COVID year where he was sitting at home. When the team badly needed him.

What kind of rotten precedent does this set?

:livid:
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I doubt if the reason was 'he wanted to spend time at home , etc'. its more the practical aspect. When the T20's got over, he probably was assessed if he could bowl for long spells /short spells in tests. The answer was probably no and hence he was sent back home. Frankly, if he cant bowl, I don't think he makes the cut purely on basis of a batsman. I hope he starts bowling, because he will be of utmost use come mid 2021-Eng tour.
 
Swashbuckler said:
Jadeja out of the series, ok I am officially worried now.

Shami, Umesh, Jadeja are essential to our success at home. Big boots to fill for Bumrah, Siraj, Kuldeep/Washington/Axar.
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is it confirm that Jadeja is out of whole series or just out of 1st two tests? if so yes, major worry, hopefully kulli . ash and washy along with any two from ishant jazzboom hardik do the trick for us.
 
CrIc_Mystique said:
is it confirm that Jadeja is out of whole series or just out of 1st two tests? if so yes, major worry, hopefully kulli . ash and washy along with any two from ishant jazzboom hardik do the trick for us.
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It's confirmed. He's out of the series.
 
Swashbuckler said:
Jadeja out of the series, ok I am officially worried now.

Shami, Umesh, Jadeja are essential to our success at home. Big boots to fill for Bumrah, Siraj, Kuldeep/Washington/Axar.
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We need to bat big in all games to put scoreboard pressure
 
Mesozoic said:
It's confirmed. He's out of the series.
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Its a massive blow. He is a team by himself. Just when he was peaking in TC this injury happens. I mean look at him where he was in 2012-13 and where he is now. He simply has to be the most improved TC player with perhaps only Ishant who can rival him for improvement. Well, one mans misfortune is anothers opportunity -maybe the young guys will shine
 
pillionrider said:
It's not about his abilities. It's about making him pay and learning not to take things for granted.
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You clearly don’t want to learn do you. Give players some mental space in COVID times. His dad also was not keeping healthy and he has passed away, so he knows more about his family and his cricket then you.
How do you know he is taking things for granted. Kohli also went home is he taking things for granted.
No you will give me example of Siraj but everyone is different.
Try to be more inclusive
 
CrIc_Mystique said:
Its a massive blow. He is a team by himself. Just when he was peaking in TC this injury happens. I mean look at him where he was in 2012-13 and where he is now. He simply has to be the most improved TC player with perhaps only Ishant who can rival him for improvement. Well, one mans misfortune is anothers opportunity -maybe the young guys will shine
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Sundar will replace him as 7th batsman and spinner
 
Beating India in India is higher than winning Ashes away - Swann

Performance in the Ashes should no longer be the yardstick to judge the England team, feels Graeme Swann who says England must aspire beyond the Ashes as 'Australia are not the best team in the world anymore'.
- Swann
:yk2
 
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King_Kohli said:
Hardhik is five times better player than Sundar, even as a specialist batsman.
We are underestimating him just after one series.
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In Indian conditions, I think Sundar will be more useful than Pandya though. Pandya as specialist bat does not give us fifth bowling option.
 
I don’t get why Sundar bowls with a right hand, could had had more impact if he bowled with left.. like his batting.
 
JaDed said:
I don’t get why Sundar bowls with a right hand, could had had more impact if he bowled with left.. like his batting.
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Maybe right hand is natural hand,like Ganguly Chris Harris etc
 
Saurav said:
Maybe right hand is natural hand,like Ganguly Chris Harris etc
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Trye..which is fine he is probably our top T20 bowler as per rankings.. hopefully he can learn to do better in test, he has the height for the slight bounce too.
 
JaDed said:
Trye..which is fine he is probably our top T20 bowler as per rankings.. hopefully he can learn to do better in test, he has the height for the slight bounce too.
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Still young.I'm sure he'll learn tricks from Ashwin

Can blossom into another spin bowling AR in 3-4 years
 
Saurav said:
Still young.I'm sure he'll learn tricks from Ashwin

Can blossom into another spin bowling AR in 3-4 years
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I think he is more in the mould of Shakib, Moeen etc. Equally good with bat and bowl as far as tests are concerned. For T20s though, his bowling is excellent.
 
Ab Fan said:
I think he is more in the mould of Shakib, Moeen etc. Equally good with bat and bowl as far as tests are concerned. For T20s though, his bowling is excellent.
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Yep.more of a batsman as of now in Tests but bowling will develop

Will also play in ODIs as 6th bowler/AR

In T20 he needs to bat higher bat.Clearly better than a no. 8
 
England resting and rotating is ridiculous. Play your best 11 for the conditions and worry about rest when you have won the series. I can see it being counterproductive. How can you build match sharpness when your rested after 2 games? I can slightly understand fast bowlers but whey does Bairstow need rest after playing a couple of tests in a row?

I get the schedule is demanding, but these guys are professional athletes who are paid to play cricket. It’s really annoying as a fan to see a team rest players for a big series due “fatigue “ after 1 or 2 games of a series.
 
hoshiarpurexpress said:
You clearly don’t want to learn do you. Give players some mental space in COVID times. His dad also was not keeping healthy and he has passed away, so he knows more about his family and his cricket then you.
How do you know he is taking things for granted. Kohli also went home is he taking things for granted.
No you will give me example of Siraj but everyone is different.
Try to be more inclusive
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lol keep your inclusiveness where the sun don't shine.

Regarding his Dad, if that was the reason he went back, that's understandable. Not sure why he turned up for the limited overs leg though. Or even the IPL.
 
Key and Hussain on sky were critical of Ed Smith and his bizarre selection for the tour.

If the players themselves had voluntarily chosen to sit this out due to concerns over the bubble, I'd understand. However, this has the rancid air of some imbecile trying to make himself look smart by overcomplicating affairs.

It won't be the first time that the ECB has prioritized the Ashes and trivialized all other series.
 
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Leach: 38-5-119-0
Bess: 26-2-76-0

In less than a couple of weeks, they will be bowling in India to Kohli, Pujara, Rohit, Gill and probably Pant.
 
Last time England were in India:
We won 4-0.
Even Jayant Yadav scored a hundred.
Highest Score - Karun Nair 303.

Most Runs:
Virat Kohli - 655 - Avg 109.17
Joe Root - 491 - Avg 49.10
Pujara - 401 - Avg 50.12
Moeen Ali - 381 - Avg 42.33
Alastair Cook - 369 - Avg 36.90

Most Wickets:
Ravichandran Ashwin - 28
Ravindra Jadeja - 26
Adil Rashid - 23
Mohammed Shami - 10
Moeen Ali - 10

Our openers Gill and Rohit will score tons of runs just for fun.
Jaddu is going to be a big miss for us.
 
Tour looks interesting. India strong favourites, but England might spring a surprise or two.

Hopefully will be a very competitive series overall.

Looking forward to it.
 
Not sure about the selection/rotation process for the tour, England need the strongest possible team to be really competitive.
 
India should not include Pujara in playing XI. He had a long series in Australia and his style of batting is not required in India anyway. Let him rest and come fresh when we tour England in middle of the year. A proper stroke maker is required to bat at 3 for India.

Rohit
Gill
Rahul
Kohli (c)
Rahane
Pant (wk)
Pandya
Sundar
Ashwin
Ishant
Bumrah
 
Rajdeep said:
India should not include Pujara in playing XI. He had a long series in Australia and his style of batting is not required in India anyway. Let him rest and come fresh when we tour England in middle of the year. A proper stroke maker is required to bat at 3 for India.

Rohit
Gill
Rahul
Kohli (c)
Rahane
Pant (wk)
Pandya
Sundar
Ashwin
Ishant
Bumrah
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What has Rahul done to deserve a spot,that too no. 3?
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The only player in England’s Top 3 that’s playing the sub continent conditions with any control or calmness is resting for the first 2 Tests against the best Team in world at home <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/India?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#India</a> !!! The world is officially mad ... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SLvENG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SLvENG</a></p>— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelVaughan/status/1352930314641952768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Saurav said:
What has Rahul done to deserve a spot,that too no. 3?
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Lol. Reading some bizarre things today,

Saha and not Pant should be played in this series!

Rahul instead of Pujara needs to be played.

What has Rahul done in test cricket whenever he got chance during last few years?
 
MP2011 said:
Lol. Reading some bizarre things today,

Saha and not Pant should be played in this series!

Rahul instead of Pujara needs to be played.

What has Rahul done in test cricket whenever he got chance during last few years?
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That might come true :kohli
 
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