England captain Ben Stokes won the toss and elected to bowl first against Shubman Gill바카라™s India in the opening Test of the highly anticipated five-match series at Headingley in Leeds.
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England captain Ben Stokes won the toss and elected to bowl first against Shubman Gill바카라™s India in the opening Test of the highly anticipated five-match series at Headingley in Leeds.
Ahead of the toss, India바카라™s Sai Sudharsan received his Test cap from Cheteshwar Pujara, who is in England as part of the broadcast team.
Nevertheless, England바카라™s decision to bowl first after winning the toss is backed by recent history--each of the last six Tests at Headingley since 2017 has been won by the team batting second, with two innings victories and four successful chases of over 250-run targets.
England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes(c), Jamie Smith(w), Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Josh Tongue, Shoaib Bashir
India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Karun Nair, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna
The first Test between India and England will be telecast on Sony Networks and can be live streamed on JioHotstar.