🏏India XI vs England XI:1st T20I AT Southampton 🏏- Page 3

India have won the toss and have opted to bat

Rohit Sharma: We are gonna bat first. Looks like a good pitch, decent ground to play. Good pitch, sun is out, better thing to bat first. Recovered pretty well, had a couple of hits before getting into this game. Looking forward to the game as well. We know the scheduling, we got to have the understanding, players will be swapped every now and then. You can create your bench strength as well, a lot of opportunities for guys to come out and play. Exciting times, these guys have been here for a while playing in Ireland and played a couple of games here as well. We are making him (Arshdeep) play. There were a few choices for us, the other guys will have their time. Arshdeep has done well in the IPL, looks an exciting prospect.

England (Playing XI): Jason Roy, Jos Buttler(w/c), Dawid Malan, Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Tymal Mills, Reece Topley, Matthew Parkinson

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik(w), Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal

Jos Buttler: Very proud day, captaining your country. Eoin has left the team in a great place The Test team has been fantastic to watch. Hopefully we can ride that momentum. Gleeson, Willey and Salt miss out We have a couple of all-rounders.

I am hoping Rohit Sharma scores Big today.

India scores over 200 and wins.

Will be missing Virat Kohli…

Rohit Sharma: We are gonna bat first. Looks like a good pitch, decent ground to play. Good pitch, sun is out, better thing to bat first. Recovered pretty well, had a couple of hits before getting into this game. Looking forward to the game as well. We know the scheduling, we got to have the understanding, players will be swapped every now and then. You can create your bench strength as well, a lot of opportunities for guys to come out and play. Exciting times, these guys have been here for a while playing in Ireland and played a couple of games here as well. We are making him (Arshdeep) play. There were a few choices for us, the other guys will have their time. Arshdeep has done well in the IPL, looks an exciting prospect.

India have won the toss and have opted to bat

Jos Buttler: Very proud day, great honour to get to captain your country. I'm looking forward to the challenges ahead. Eoin has been a fantastic captain for a very long time, he has left the team in a great place and now the pressure is on to keep it moving forward. The Test team has been fantastic to watch. Hopefully we can ride that momentum as well. Gleeson, Willey and Salt miss out. We have got a couple of all-rounders in Moeen Ali and Liam Livingstone, they give us a lot of options with both ball and bat.

Originally posted by: vijay

I am hoping Rohit Sharma scores Big today.

India scores over 200 and wins.

Will be missing Virat Kohli…

The middle order has to perform now.

DK wicket keeper. They are unable to make up der minds abt wkt keeper between Ishan n DK😆

Dinesh Karthik talking to Michael Atherton: Got a clear role in the IPL and coming here playing instead of broadcasting, it feels nice. I genuinely believed I could be a part of this team, not only that, worked towards it. I can't say about others, but I felt I could play for this side.