India and England face off in the first of the three One Day Internationals (ODI) on Thursday at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. Both India and England boast of a strong batting lineup with the visitors also have better spinners in their arsenal.
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Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni is just 33 short of the 10,000 runs mark in ODIs. Only 11 batsmen including three Indians – Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Saurav Ganguly – have achieved the landmark. He needs 98 runs to become India’s top run-scorer against England in ODIs. Only Yuvraj Singh (1,523 runs) and Tendulkar (1,455) have scored more ODIs runs against England than Dhoni (1,425).
He is also three short of taking 300 catches in ODIs. The wicketkeepers ahead of Dhoni in terms of catches in ODIs are former Australian player Adam Gilchrist (417), South Africa’s March Boucher (402) and Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara (383).
England are the number 1 team in ICC ODI rankings and India second. With the next ICC World Cup scheduled to take place in England and Wales from May 30 to July 14, 2019, both the teams will look to test various permutation and combination to get the right mix. If India blank out England 3-0 in the OFI series, then they will take the top spot in the ICC ODI rankings.
The English batsmen have been extremely successful at Trent Bridge in recent times. They have broken the world record for the highest ODI total at the venue in both the last two matches that they have played. In August 2016, England scored 444/3 against Pakistan while they piled 481/6 against Australia in June 2018.
Full squads:
India: Virat Kohli (C), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, MS Dhoni (WK), Dinesh Karthik, Suresh Raina, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shreyas Iyer, Siddarth Kaul, Axar Patel, Umesh Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
England: Eoin Morgan (C), Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler (WK), Moeen Ali, Joe Root, Jake Ball, Tom Curran, Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Ben Stokes, Adil Rashid, David Willey, Mark Wood.
Source: Zee News