India vs England, IND vs ENG Dream11 Prediction, 1st Test Match, Playing 11 Today Match: The first match of the 5-match Test series between India and England will be played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad from Thursday, January 25. The cause of concern for the Indian team is the absence of Virat Kohli. He will not play the first two Test matches due to personal reasons.
Who will bat in his place at number 4 is a big question now. England will be looking for an alternative to Harry Brook in the middle order. The 24-year-old has shown excellent performance in his short Test career.
The series is to be played in India and the role of spinners will be crucial due to the turning wicket. There are 3 spinners in the playing 11 of the Indian team. Apart from Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel will be on the team. Apart from this, Jaspreet Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj will be the two fast bowlers. Talking about batting, Yashasvi Jaiswal will be seen opening with captain Rohit Sharma.
KS Bharat will be the wicketkeeper
Shubman Gill will have to prove his worth at number 3. In the absence of Virat Kohli, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer will get a chance in the middle order. Iyer might have had to sit out if Kohli was there. KS Bharat is set to take over the responsibility of wicketkeeping.
Coach Rahul Dravid has already clarified that Rahul will play as a batsman in the Test series against England. He had kept wickets in South Africa. Dhruv Jurel is also an option. However, Bharat will be tried before him.
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England Team
The Ben Stokes-led team has experienced players like James Anderson and Joe Root. In addition, there are young players like Tom Hartley and Shoaib Bashir. England vice-captains Ollie Pope and Jack Leach have returned to the squad after recovering from injury. Talking about the pace attack, apart from Anderson, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood, and Gus Atkinson are there. Ben Foakes has also made a comeback to the team. Even after this, Johnny Bairstow can be seen wicketkeeping.
India vs England Match Details
Match: India vs England, 1st Test (England Tour of India, 2024)
Date and Time: January 25, 2024, 09:30 AM IST
Venue: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium
Live Broadcast and Streaming: Sports-18 and Jio Cinema
IND vs ENG Test Head-To-Head
Matches Played: 131
India Won: 31
England Won: 50
No Result/Draw: 50
Hyderabad weather forecast for January 25 to January 29
The weather forecast from Thursday (January 25) to Monday (January 29) indicates warm conditions throughout the game days with a maximum temperature of 32°C. There is no threat of rain on any match day or before the match. Therefore, the weather will not disturb the opening match of the Test series.
IND vs ENG Pitch Report Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium
The pitches at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium are batting-friendly, but like most wickets in the country, fast bowlers also get help as opposed to spinners. Although most of the pitches in India in recent times have been spinner-friendly, the Hyderabad surface allows batsmen to score big runs. The last Test match was played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in 2018. Since then, the nature of the pitches produced in India has changed.
The last time a Test match was hosted at the venue, India won by 10 wickets against West Indies in 2018, when play ended in three days as the hosts chased down 75 in the fourth innings.
Despite being dominated by batsmen in Hyderabad, bowlers are never out of the game here. In the last match played here, the batsmen and bowlers were on par throughout the match. Both teams scored more than 300 runs in their first innings and both the fast bowlers and spinners also did well. The fast bowlers had the upper hand and they took 18 out of 30 wickets in the match and the remaining 12 wickets were taken by spinners.
Although India played three specialist spinners, the wickets list in that Test was dominated by a fast bowler as Umesh Yadav (6 for 88 and 4 for 43) took ten wickets. Although the fast bowlers have been happy, this time the wicket can be ready for the Indian spinners.
In total in five Test matches so far, the team batting first and the team batting later have won the same number of wins, with 2 wins each, with the captain winning the toss mostly preferring to bat first to score runs on the board.
The average 1st innings score here is 405, which shows that the best time to bat here is the first innings. It is very difficult to chase the target in the fourth innings here. Only once in the five matches played here, a team has been able to chase a successful target. That too was a target of just 75 runs in the fourth innings.
One can expect the pitch to be batsman-friendly, but no one will be surprised if we see a spin-friendly pitch in Hyderabad to tackle England’s bazzball approach.
IND vs ENG Test Probable Playing 11
INDIA: Rohit Sharma (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.
ENGLAND: Ben Stokes (captain), Ollie Pope, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Johnny Bairstow (wicketkeeper), Rehan Ahmed, Jack Leach, Mark Wood, Ollie Robinson, and James Anderson.
Ind vs Eng Dream11 Prediction Today Match Team, 1st Test
IND vs ENG Dream11 Prediction Head-To-Head League
Wicketkeepers: KL Rahul
Batsmen: Ben Stokes, Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer,
All-rounders: Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja (captain), Akshar Patel, Joe Root (vice-captain)
Bowlers: Jasprit Bumrah, James Anderson, Jack Leach
IND vs ENG Dream11 Prediction Mega League
Wicketkeepers: KL Rahul
Batsmen: Ben Stokes, Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal,
All-rounders: Ravichandran Ashwin (vice-captain), Ravindra Jadeja (captain), Joe Root
Bowlers: Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, James Anderson, Mark Wood
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