India vs England 1st T20I Match: Playing XI prediction, head-to-head stats, pitch report and weather update

The defending satellite T20 champions are yet to suffer a bilateral bid since their trophy triumph successful Barbados.

Predicted XIs

India predicted XI: Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammad Shami, Varun Chakravarthy

Indian bowler Mohammad Shami with bowling manager Morne Morkel during a grooming league up of the archetypal T20 cricket lucifer against England, astatine Eden Garden successful Kolkata,West Bengal. (PTI)

Player to ticker retired for: Fast bowler Mohammed Shami made a comeback to the Indian team. Shami past played for India successful the 2023 World Cup last against Australia successful Ahmedabad, aft which helium was sidelined due to the fact that of an ankle wounded that needed surgery. The 34-year-old made a instrumentality to cricket for the Ranji Trophy and besides played successful the T20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy for Bengal. However, helium didn’t marque it for India’s disastrous circuit of Australia due to the fact that of swelling of the genu connected his instrumentality to home cricket. In Shami’s absence, the squad didn’t person a 2nd accelerated bowler different than gait spearhead and stand-in skipper Jasprit Bumrah to consistently enactment unit connected the Australian batsmen.

England predicted XI: Jos Buttler (c&wk), Phil Salt, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Jamie Smith, Gus Atkinson, Rehan Ahmed, Adil Rashid, Jofra Archer, Mark Wood

Player to ticker retired for: England volition beryllium banking connected their players, who person had a large records successful the IPL but it volition young Jacob Bethell, who volition person each the attention. The Bajan-born left-hander has looks the existent deal. During the ODI bid against West Indies past year, helium became the 3rd youngest half-centurion for England successful the format’s history. In the 7 T20Is, helium made 2 fifties, averaged 57.66 and struck astatine 167.96. The 21-year-old has besides made a singular Test debut, hitting 3 half-centuries against New Zealand with 96 his highest score.

Squads

India T20 squad: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Nitish Reddy, Mohd Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Harisht Rana, Dhruv Jurel, Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakrabarthy and Washington Sundar.

England T20I Squad: Jos Buttler (c), Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Ben Duckett, Jamie Overton, Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Saqib Mahmood, Phil Salt, Mark Wood

India vs England head-to-head records successful T20Is

Matches played: 24, India won: 13, England won:11

India vs England 1st T20I transportation report

The Eden Gardens is cognize for providing pitches that are batting-friendly. Dew volition play a large relation successful the match.

India vs England 1st T20I upwind report

We volition person a afloat crippled arsenic determination is nary accidental of rainfall connected Wednesday.

India vs England unrecorded streaming detail

The unrecorded streaming of the India vs England T20 bid volition beryllium disposable connected the Disney Plus Hotstar app and website successful India.