🏏England tour of India 2025: 2nd ODI: 09/02/25 at 1:30 PM IST🏏 - Page 5

Sanket: "In my opinion Rohit's struggle is more of mental than technical flow. He is not getting out in the same way so there isn't any visible technical fault as such, it's just his rhythm looks a bit off. His body language and confidence has taken hit and thus he is doubting his shots, in the last game too it was easy six if he had hit that with confidence." A few of his pull shots were leading him into trouble though, and that does constitute something of a pattern.

Vinod: "Don't be surprised if Rohit says Gill has niggle at the toss." Which isn't too far away. Just about 20 minutes.

Teams:

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

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

adit: "india is absolutely not planning things well with only 2 matches left before the ct. soo much experimenting for no reason. why is varun being a given a chance today? why was jaiswal considered ahead of shreyas? why isnt a left arm seamer arshdeep no considered ahead of a debutant?" Are the England fans completely happy with their team? Conspicuously absent on our feedback today...

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

Kabir Shrikent: "Not sure how I feel about a game winner like Pant sitting on the bench, is there anyway he could fit into the XI"

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.

Tanmay More: "What's the news on the maverick Jasprit Bumrah, is he playing the 3rd ODI?" Last we saw him, he was being wooed by Coldplay in Ahmedabad. Sidebar: Imagine being wooed by Chris Martin. It was interesting when the BCCI added Varun Chakravarthy into the squad for this series and sent an updated list of India personnel, that list didn't have Bumrah's name on it.

England have won the toss and they'll bat. "We've been pushing in the right direction, play better for longer," says Jos Buttler. "Individually and collectively be aware [of not losing wickets in clumps]." He wants to put pressure on India for longer, making a mention of their blistering start in the last game. Three changes: Wood, Atkinson and Overton come in. Archer, Bethell and Carse go out. England are dealing with an injury crisis - Bethell has a left hamstring problem and it is serious enough that they have called Tom Banton in as cover.