It’s time for a 5 match Test series as India takes on England. The first Test starts at Headingley, Leeds and both teams want to start the new WTC cycle with a win. India is missing big guns like Rohit and Virat but Shubman Gill will be leading the team. After a tough WTC cycle where they didn’t make it to the finals and lost to New Zealand and Australia they are looking to start fresh.
Last time India played a series in England it was a 2-2 draw so this team is hoping to do better this time. Sai Sudharsan is making his Test debut and he has already got his cap.
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England won the toss and Ben Stokes chose to bowl first taking advantage of the conditions which are expected to be good for seamers.
Here are the playing XIs:
England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes(c), Jamie Smith(w), Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Josh Tongue, Shoaib Bashir
India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Karun Nair, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Prasidh Krishna, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.
