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1st ODI: India elect to bowl against England; Kuldeep back


17:10  India elect to bowl against England; Kuldeep back:  

Umesh Yadav starts off with a beauty, full and moving away as Jason Roy gets an edge trying to play the drive but it flies of Suresh Raina in the slips and goes for a four.

Virat Kohli bring himself at second slip as Umesh pitches it up and gets some movement forcing Roy to defend watchfully.

He then picks a leg bye before Jonny Bairstow is beaten by one that moves away before he is struck on the back pads off the last ball as it comes in sharply but the umpire turns down the leg before appeal.

India decide against taking the DRS but the ball tracker shows that the impact was in line and it was going on to hit the stumps. India would regret not taking the DRS.

Debutant Siddarth Kaul to bowl the second over. Roy drives the first ball on the up outside the off-stump as Rahul does well with a dive in the covers to stop it and give away just a single.

The fifth ball is short as Bairstow pulls it comfortably through square leg for a four for the first boundary of the match as five come from the second over.


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Check out the playing XIs of the two teams:

India:
Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Suresh Raina, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (w/k), Hardik Pandya, Siddarth Kaul, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav.

England:
Eoin Morgan (captain), Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (w/k), Moeen Ali, David Willey, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood

16:40  India elect to bowl against England; Kuldeep back:  

India captain Virat Kohli has won the toss and elected to bowl against England in the first ODI in Nottingham.

Kohli has no problems chasing despite the fact the last time England were put into bat at this venue, they posted a massive 481 against Australia.

“Our strengths are different, with the two wrist spinners bowling in the middle overs. We chased well in the T20 series against England,” reasons the India captain.

India have brought back left-arm chinaman spinner Kuldeep Yadav back into the team in place of Deepak Chahar as the only change in the team which played in the third T20 against England.

For England, Alex Hales misses out as Moeen Ali comes into the team.

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16:25  India start as favourites against England:  On a high after an impressive Twenty20 series win, an upbeat India will eye another dominant performance against hosts England in a three- match ODI series, starting in Nottingham, on Thursday.

The three-match ODI series will give Virat Kohli & his team an ideal opportunity to get a drift about the conditions that his men are expected to encounter at the 50-overs World Cup at exactly same time next year.

While India will be buoyed by their 2-1 T20 series win, England, the top ranked ODI team in world cricket, come into the series having crushed a below-par Australia 6-0 in their last bilateral engagement.

England have been one of the finest 50 over sides in recent times and India will have their task cut against a batting line-up comprising Jos Buttler, Jason Roy, Alex Hales, Jonny Bairstow and Eoin Morgan.Add Ben Stokes to it and England bear a formidable look.

While India will be buoyed by their 2-1 T20 series win, England, the top ranked ODI team in world cricket, come into the series having crushed a below-par Australia 6-0 in their last bilateral engagement.

England have been one of the finest 50 over sides in recent times and India will have their task cut against a batting line-up comprising Jos Buttler, Jason Roy, Alex Hales, Jonny Bairstow and Eoin Morgan.Add Ben Stokes to it and England bear a formidable look.

Yuzvendra Chahal is a certainty as the wrist spinner and Kuldeep Yadav, who has created all sorts of doubts in the minds of the batsmen, may just comeback into the playing XI as the Trent Bridge ground is much bigger than the one at Bristol.

Source: Rediff