IND vs ENG / Team India will prepare to become world champion, warm-up match with England today

IND vs ENG: After a wait of four years, the struggle to become the champion of the cricket world has started once again. Preparations for the ODI World Cup starting in India have been going on for many days and months, but the final practice of the 15 players who will present their respective teams' stake in the tournament has started. The warm-up matches of the World Cup have started from Friday 29th September and on Saturday 30th September i.e. today the Indian team will take the field for one such match. The first challenge before Team India is the current world champion England. This match will prepare Team India to deal with the most important problem during the entire World Cup.

The Indian team will play its first practice match in Guwahati, one of the three warm-up venues of the World Cup. India has to face Netherlands in the next practice match. In such a situation, the importance of this practice match against England increases because the English team has some qualities which will also help in preparing India against other teams. Obviously, England will not give its full strength in this match, nor will Team India do so. Nevertheless, this match is important for India for a special reason.

Same old problem of India

Team India, captained by Rohit Sharma, has had to face a special problem in the last few years, which includes two legendary batsmen like captain Rohit himself and Virat Kohli. This is a struggle against left arm fast bowlers. Be it Trent Boult or Shaheen Shah Afridi or Mitchell Starc, these legendary left arm pacers have troubled the Indian batsmen. Not only this, but there have been many other pacers who have troubled the top order of Team India especially because India has only right-handed batsmen at the top and in such a situation, the swing and angle of the left arm pacers trouble them. Have been doing.

England will give a chance to prepare

There are three left-arm medium pacers in the England team, who do not have much pace but all three of them create difficult angles. Especially David Willey and Reece Topley get good bounce due to their tall height. Both of them had caused trouble in the series held in England last year. Whereas Sam Curran is not in very good form but he also uses cutters and swing. Now, except India, almost all the teams participating in the World Cup have left-arm pacers and in such a situation, there would hardly be a better opportunity than this to practice dealing with them.

Apart from this, there is also an amazing leg spinner in the form of Adil Rashid and here too most of the batsmen of the Indian team have been getting stuck. Along with this, there is also Moeen Ali's off break, which can prove to be more lethal than Glenn Maxwell. In this respect also, this warm-up match will prove to be important.

Good test for bowlers too

This is important not only for batsmen but also for bowlers. However, it will be worth seeing whether Team India fields its X-factor bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Yadav in this match or not. Both the stars have made a great comeback in recent times. In such a situation, you may think of not only keeping them fresh but also exposing them to a minimum.

In this context, bowlers like Shardul Thakur, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik Pandya will be tested the most in front of the explosive batsmen of England because these bowlers will handle the middle overs and the specialty of England is that their batsmen also bat fast in this phase. Let's try to score runs. It will also be worth watching how the Indian bowlers will deal with the batting depth of England.

India and England squads

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj.

England: Jos Buttler (captain-wicketkeeper), Jonny Bairstow (wicketkeeper), Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Liam Livingston, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, David Willey, Gus Atkinson, Mark Wood, Adil Rasheed and Reece Topley