The 3-match ODI series will give Virat Kohli and company an ideal opportunity to know the English conditions ahead of ICC Cricket World Cup next year. Catch live updates here.
India
Vs England ODI : After an impressive T20 International (T20I)
series win, India will eye another dominant performance against
England when both teams lock horns for the 1st One Day International
(ODI) match at Trent Bridge in Nottingham today. With ICC Cricket
World Cup scheduled to be held in UK in 2019, the three-match ODI
series will give Virat Kohli and Company an ideal opportunity to know
the English conditions that Indian cricket team are expected to
encounter at during their World Cup stint at exactly same time next
year.
India
will be going to play the 1st ODI on high after 2-1 T20I series win
while England, the top-ranked ODI team in ICC men’s ODI Team
rankings, coming into the series having crushed a below-par Australia
6-0 in their last bilateral engagement recently. England have been
one of the finest 50 over sides in recent times and India will have
their task cut against a batting line-up comprising Jos Buttler,
Jason Roy, Alex Hales, Jonny Bairstow and Eoin Morgan with Ben Stokes
as all-rounder makes the English side a formidable team.
It
is a reputation built on fearless, attacking cricket that has seen
England win 46 out of 69 ODIs since a disastrous ICC Cricket World
Cup 2015. Their last bilateral series' defeat came in India in
January 2017, with only a freak one-off loss to Scotland in the
interim.
The
3 match ODI series will give Indian team management a chance to mix
and matches various combination, keeping in mind the ICC Cricket
World Cup 2019. K L Rahul's stupendous form has been a happy headache
for the team management and there is a possibility that the captain
Virat Kohli might come at No 4 in order to give Rahul a chance to
make optimum use of his current form. Rahul scored a 70 against
Ireland and followed it by an unbeaten 101 against England in the
first T20. He will, in all likelihood, be the missing jigsaw puzzle
at the top of the order for skipper Kohli. With both Shikhar Dhawan
and Rohit Sharma being automatic selections at the top of the order,
Rahul, who is also a specialist opener comes in at No 3. If the same
batting order is followed, skipper Kohli, who has been world's best
ODI batsman by a distance, will have to drop himself a notch down at
No 4.
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