India chose to bowl vs England
“I feel it’s a beautiful wicket, and one side is short so we want to maximise it and see what they do,” Iyer said at the toss.
He named an unchanged XI, but said he was happy to lose the toss, having been undecided about his options. In the end, he said he would have batted first anyway, and given England’s familiarity with these conditions, they will be targeting a significant score on the board to put India’s big-hitters under pressure.
After a wash-out and a loss in the series so far, India need to win to stay in with a shout of claiming the series.
England 1 Phil Salt, 2 Jos Buttler (wk), 3 Harry Brook (capt), 4 Jacob Bethell, 5 Tom Banton, 6 Sam Curran, 7 Will Jacks, 8 Liam Dawson, 9 Jofra Archer, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Josh Tongue.
India 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 3 Ishan Kishan (wk), 4 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Harshit Rana, 7 Shivam Dube, 8 Axar Patel, 9 Prince Yadav, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Varun Chakravarthy.
