IND vs ENG | England tour of India, 4th Test Match | 04-03-2021 09:30

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Match : India vs England

Series : England tour of India, 2021.

Date : 04 March, 09:30 AM IST

Venue : Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad.

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England won the toss and have opted to Bat.

Change in Team 1 :-  No Change

India (Playing XI): RRohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(C), Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant(WK), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Siraj

England (Playing XI): Dominic Sibley, Zak Crawley, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root(C), Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Ben Foakes(WK), Daniel Lawrence, Dominic Bess, Jack Leach, James Anderson

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 Probable XI :- 

India :-

Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(C), Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant(WK), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav/Mohammed Siraj.

England :-

Dominic Sibley, Zak Crawley, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root(C), Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Ben Foakes(WK), Dom Bess, Jofra Archer, Jack Leach, James Anderson.

 Pitch & Weather Report : - 

The Narendra Modi Stadium is one of the biggest in the world with a seating capacity of over 1 lakh people. As we saw in the last Test, the pitch was tailor-made for the spinners, and it had nothing for the pacers. The same pitch will be prepared for the fourth Test, and spinners will play a crucial role..

The weather of Ahmedabad will be hot and sunny and it will remain the same throughout the day. The temperature is expected to be 20-30°C on all the five days of the Test match.There are no chances of rain-interruptions during the game..

----News & Analysis----

India(IND)

• After losing by a considerable margin in the first Test, Team India performed brilliantly in the next two matches.
• India beat the visitors in last match under 2 days by the margin of 10 wickets.
• India need to escape a defeat in the final test to qualify for the WTC final.
• Jasprit Bumrah will be unavailable for this match due to some personal reasons.
• Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill will open the inning for the India team.Rohit Sharma scored brilliantly 66 runs in 1st innings of 3rd Test match.
• Cheteshwar Pujara will bat at No 03. He is very good batsman in Test matches and able to hold the innings and paly a big knock bubut is yet to play a big inning in this series. .
• Skipper Virat Kohli will bat at No 04. He is world class batsman.He scored only 27 runs 1st innings.
• Ajinkya Rahane is another very good Test batsman at No 05.He has been struggling a lot to score runs. Only in the second Test, he managed to score a fifty.
• Rishabh Pant(WK) will bat at no. 6.His recent performance has been brilliant, but they got out early in the last match.
• Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel will take care of the lower middle order of the team. All of them are very good lower middle batsman and very good spinner as well.
• Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel and Washington Sundar will take care of spin bowling.In the last match, Axar Patel picked 11 wickets, While R Ashwin got 7 wickets.
• Ishant Sharma will lead the pace attack along with Umesh Yadav/Mohammed Siraj.

England(ENG)

• After winning 1st match, England has not been able to come out of the spin web by the Indian players and have struggled a lot for scoring runs and bad team selection.
• With two back-to-back losses, England has lost the chance for qualifying to the WTC final.
• Dom Bess might get a chance to be in the playing XI in place of Stuart Broad.
• Zak Crawley and D Sibley is expected to open the batting. Zak Crawley batted decently and scored 53 runs in the first inning but got out early in the second innings, While D Sibley also performed well in some of the innings but was not that effective in the last match
• Jonny Bairstow will bat at No 03. He is a attacking batsman but he got out for a duck in both innings.
• Skipper Joe Root will bat at No 04 and Ben Stokes follow him.Joe Root, after his double century in the first Test has appeared to be struggling to handle the spin, and same case with Ben Stokes.
• Ben Foakes (WK), Olli Pope and Dom Bess will take care of the lower middle order of the team. 
• Jofra Archer and James Anderson will lead the pace attack along with Ben Stokes. 
• Jack Leach will lead the spin along with Joe Root and Dom Bess.Joe Root bowled very well, he picked five wicket in previous match, While Jack Leach picked up 4 wickets in previous match.

 Last Five Match Record 

India : W, W, L, W, D

England : L, L, W, W, W

 Head to Head Matches 

Total Match Played : 125

India Won : 28

England Won : 48

Draw : 49

 Top picks Players :- 

• Rohit Sharma : (3 M, 296 R)
• Virat Kohali : (3 M, 172 R)
• Ravichandran Aswin : (3 M, 176 R + 24 W)
• Axar Patel : (2 M, 18 W)
• Joe Root : (3 M, 333 R + 6 W)
• Jack Leach : (3 M, 16 W)
• Ben Stocks : (3 M, 146 R + 1 W)
• Dominic Sibley : (3 M, 129 R)

 Squads : - 

India :-

Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(C), Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant(WK), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Mayank Agarwal, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Wriddhiman Saha, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya.

England :-

Dominic Sibley, Zak Crawley, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root(C), Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Ben Foakes(WK), Dominic Bess, Jack Leach, Jofra Archer, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Rory Burns, Chris Woakes, Olly Stone, Mark Wood, Daniel Lawrence.

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