IND vs ENG 1st ODI Predicted Playing 11: KL Rahul set to pip Rishabh Pant; Will Varun Chakaravarthy make debut in Nagpur?

Here is simply a look astatine India’s predicted XI for the archetypal ODI against England

Rahul acceptable to pip Pant

With India skipper Rohit Sharma mentioning the squad has a bully headache successful the KL Rahul-Rishabh Pant wicket-keeper situation, it volition beryllium absorbing however things pa retired passim the series. However, Rohit was speedy to admit that continuity volition beryllium integral and that Rahul has done a decent occupation implicit the past fewer seasons.

“KL Rahul has been keeping wickets for america successful the ODI format for a fig of years now. He has done beauteous well. If you look astatine the past 10-15 ODIs, helium has done precisely what the squad required him to do. Rishabh arsenic well. He is there. We person got an enactment of playing either 1 of them. Both are rather susceptible of winning games connected their own. It is simply a bully foretell to person whether to play KL oregon Rishabh. But obviously, looking astatine what we person done successful the past, having that continuity is besides precise important for us. That is wherever we basal arsenic a squad with KL and Rishabh,” said Rohit successful the pre-match property conference.

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Will Varun Chakaravarthy marque his ODI debut?

India seemed keen to spot Varun Chakaravarthy’s wares aft his superb exploits successful the T20Is and the 33-year-old was instantly fast-tracked to articulation the broadside successful Nagpur. The Tamil Nadu spinner had an extended bowling league astatine the crushed connected Tuesday and could beryllium enactment to marque his ODI debut and asseverate his dominance against the Englishmen yet again.

India predicted Playing XI for archetypal ODI ve England: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja/Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Mohammad Shami, Varun Chakaravarthy.

England Playing XI for archetypal ODI vs India: Ben Duckett, Philip Salt(w), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler(c), Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Saqib Mahmood

India vs England ODI squads

India Squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Rishabh Pant (wk), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Varun Chakravarthy, KL Rahul, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar.

England Squad: Philip Salt (wk), Jos Buttler (c), Ben Duckett, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Brydon Carse, Adil Rashid, Gus Atkinson, Mark Wood, Jamie Overton, Saqib Mahmood, Jamie Smith, Jofra Archer.