After a rather dominating eight-wicket victory at Trent Bridge against England, Team India looking forward to sealing the series at the iconic Lord’s for the second match of the series against England.
Before the much-awaited game, players looked in a relaxing mood as some of the cricketers were even seen with the Windies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo. The ‘Champion’ shared an image on his Instagram account, having dinner with MS Dhoni and the flamboyant all-rounder Hardik Pandya.
He posted the image, saying, “Dinner with my brothers @mahi7781 @hardikpandya93 always nice to catch up with Cpt Kool #RunDWorld#Champion”
Kuldeep Yadav and Rohit Sharma were the stars for India in the first ODI. While Yadav picked career-best figures of 6/25, Sharma powered his way to 137 to guide India to a comfortable win. Now, by leading the short series with the 0-1 margin, India will face the hosts once again at Lord’s (London) on Saturday’s (July 14).
English batsmen have to solve this biggest issue in the very short period of time otherwise India will easily take away this ODI series too.
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English bowlers were also helpless and clueless against the strong Indian batting line-up as the Indian batsmen chased the 269-run target in a comfortable way.
Coming to the Indian cricket team, Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s injury is the major concern for the Indian pace-bowling line-up especially when they missed Jasprit Bumrah in this ODI series and most of the other pacers have not much international cricket experiences (excluding Umesh Yadav).
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It means the major responsibilities of the bowling line-up have come on the wrist-spinners’ shoulders.
Both teams will try to win the Saturday’s game as India will complete their ODI series victory, while the desperate hosts England can level the ODI series.
Full ODI Squads:
England: Eoin Morgan (capt), Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler (wk), Moeen Ali, Joe Root, Jake Ball, Tom Curran, David Malan, Liam Plunkett, Ben Stokes, Adil Rashid, David Willey, Mark Wood.
India: Virat Kohli (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, MS Dhoni (wk), Dinesh Karthik, Suresh Raina, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shreyas Iyer, Siddarth Kaul, Axar Patel, Umesh Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
