🏏England tour of India 2025: 2nd ODI: 09/02/25 at 1:30 PM IST🏏 - Page 4

Jos Buttler: We are going to bat first today. We have been pushing in the right direction, play better for longer and hopefully have a good day today. Looks a bit dry, black soil. Looks a good wicket. Three changes, Mark Wood, Gus Atkinson and Jamie Overton come into the XI.

Rohit Sharma: It was a good performance in the first game. That's what I loved about. The energy was very good despite not being on the field for a while. It was superb to watch after losing two wickets. Shreyas prides himself on that intent and attitude and not to forget the contributions of Shubman and Axar as well. Black soil pitch, not sure. Maybe play on the slower side, that's what I expect. Two changes, Jaiswal makes way for Virat. Kuldeep is rested so Varun makes his debut.

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Aaj ka match out of script ho aur match jeet jao team India.

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Varun Chakravarthy

England (Playing XI): Philip Salt(w), Ben Duckett, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler(c), Liam Livingstone, Jamie Overton, Gus Atkinson, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Saqib Mahmood

Oldest ODI debutants for India

36y 138d Farookh Engineer vs Eng Leeds 1974

33y 164d Varun Chakravarthy vs Eng Cuttack 2025 *

33y 103d Ajit Wadekar vs Eng Leeds 1974

32y 350d Dilip Doshi vs Aus Melbourne 1980

32y 307d Syed Abid Ali vs Eng Leeds 1974

Varun Chakravarthy is the oldest debutant for India outside of their inaugural match in the ODI format in 1974.

Best bowling average in List A cricket (50+ wickets)

14.13 Varun Chakravarthy *

14.91 Chanuka Dilshan

15.83 Rajendra Dhanraj

16.05 Keith Boyce

16.10 Ali Khan

Aabhas: "Surprising that Kuldeep needs rest after playing a total of 3 matches - international and otherwise - in the last 4 months. Chakravarthy isn't going to be a part of the CT squad as Bumrah's replacement surely so why not give game time to KD?"

Ajay: "England deliberately challenging themselves"

Dev: "1:30 AM in Nashville. ODI, then nap in the afternoon, then the Super Bowl. What a day!" Gotta love those Sundays. Monday might be a problem.

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