🏏India tour of England 2025: 5th Test: Eng vs India- Oval, London🏏 - Page 3

Hope India make logical selection calls for 5th Test: Kartik.

Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna and Mohammed Siraj have marked their run-ups while Arshdeep Singh hasn't. It's a very overcast morning and the pitch is now under covers as it has started to drizzle. The toss is likely to be delayed.

lost the toss again

Toss time--

England have won the toss and have opted to field

Gill goes heads again and loses the toss again

The captains are heading out for the toss. Continues to be very murky and gloomy

10:29 Local Time, 09:29 GMT, 14:59 IST: The covers are coming off. The hessian is being removed too so the toss is imminent.

Originally posted by: SalluTheUllu

lost the toss again

Jaiswal aj tik Jana

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Fifth time he lost the toss!! But, it is a good toss to lose. Let us hope, our openers will bat sensibly.

we can only hope

STAT: This is the 14th instance of a team losing all five tosses in a 5-Test series, the only previous one in the 21st century coming during India's tour of England in 2018. Three of the previous 13 series ended in a stalemate while the team losing all tosses only ended up winning once previously - England in home Ashes series in 1953.

Brook has just brought some sawdust out and sprinkled it in the landing area. That's early suggestions of moisture in the pitch.

India--2/0

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

When: England vs India, 5th Test, July 31 - August 4 2025, 15:30 IST, 11:00 Local

Where: The Oval, London

What to expect: London baked under a heatwave just three weeks ago before the Lord's Test, but now the weather has cooled, with light rain forecast on at least three days, including the opener. Every County Championship game here this season saw teams bowl first, and the highest scores usually come in the third innings. The one outlier came in the most recent fixture: Surrey's mammoth 820/9 declared after being sent in by Durham, powered by Dom Sibley's triple hundred. But "this one looks to have a lot more live grass on the wicket than the other wickets we've been on," Stokes said on match eve. England have also dropped their specialist spinner. So expect a bit more assistance there for the seamers.

Time to uproot their stokes play 🏏

Thanks for the tag

Hoping Jaiswal sets the tone with a strong start and sensible batting.