ENG vs IND - England announce playing 11 for the fifth test against India

ENG vs IND

England has decided its playing11 for the Test match to be played against India (ENG vs IND) from 1 July. The names of the 11 players who have to play against India have been announced. The captaincy of the team will be in the hands of Ben Stokes and the experienced pair of fast bowlers Stuart Broad and James Anderson will be present to test the Indian batsmen in the match.

Five-match Test series was played between India and England on the last tour, but its last match had to be postponed in view of the crisis of the Corona epidemic. In that last match of the series, both the teams will play at Edgbaston, Birmingham from July 1 to July 5.

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Englands playing 11

1. ALEX LEES, 2. ZAK CRAWLEY, 3. OLLIE POPE, 4. JOE ROOT, 5. JONNY BAIRSTOW, 6. BEN STOKES (C), 7. SAM BILLINGS (WK), 8. MATTHEW POTTS, 9. STUART BROAD, 10. JACK LEACH, 11. JAMES ANDERSON 

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India were a dominant side when they visited England last year as they claimed 20 wickets in three matches to put pressure on the hosts. However, the dynamics have completely changed in both camps since last time as both teams have got new captains in Ben Stokes and Rohit Sharma along with new head coaches in Rahul Dravid and Brendon McCullum.

Under Stokes and McCullum, England have started playing an attacking brand of cricket as they completed a 3-0 series whitewash against New Zealand after winning the third and final Test by seven wickets.

Indian team for a test match against England

Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuman Vihari, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant (wk), KS Bharat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravi Chandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Muhammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Muhammad Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Famous Krishna, and Mayank

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