IND vs ENG Game Plan Team Prediction Tips for INDIA vs ENGLAND 2nd Test Match IND vs ENG

IND vs ENG Game Plan Prediction: India vs England 2^nd Test is set to begin tomorrow morning at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. England took a 1-0 lead on the back of 227 runs win in the opening test and will be looking to repeat the same when both the teams will square off tomorrow. However, things are expected to change as the surface won’t be similar to the one in the previous encounter. A local pitch curator is preparing the surface for the second Test as BCCI and the players from both sides weren’t happy with the pitch in the lead match.

Apart from this, the crowd is set to return to a match for the first time in the country since the COVID-19 outbreak. TNCA has allowed spectators up to 50% of the total capacity i.e. around 14000 people are expected to cheer up their favorite side from the stands.

Moreover, it will be interesting to watch how both the teams proceed as England’s clinical display in the first Test has already set the series up differently.

Previous meeting: England won by 227 runs and skipper Joe Root was adjudged as the Man of the Match for his scintillating double hundred.

Match Info

England Tour of India, 2021

India vs England 2^nd Test

Date- February 13-17, 2021

Time- 09:30 AM (IST)

Venue- MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

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IND vs ENG Game PlanTeam News & Playing11

India

• Axar Patel is fit and is likely to come straight into the playing 11
• Shahbaz Nadeem has been sent back to the list of standby players
• It will be interesting to see if the management prefer to include Kuldeep Yadav or not

India Playing11

Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (wk), Washington Sundar, R Ashwin, Axar Patel/Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma

England

• The visitors have announced a 12-man squad on the eve of the Test
• Dom Bess, James Anderson, Jofra Archer, and Jos Buttler are missing out
• Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad, Olly Stone, Chris Woakes, and Ben Foakes are in the 12-man squad
• Either Olly Stone or Chris Woakes will make it to the final playing11

England Playing11

Rory Burns, Dom Sibley, Dan Lawrence, Joe Root (c), Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Ben Foakes (wk), Moeen Ali, Jack Leach, Chris Woakes/Olly Stone, Stuart Broad

IND vs ENG Who Will Win

India has a long history of winning the series after losing the first encounters. In the last six years, three of the times India has managed to do so – in Sri Lanka in 2015, against Australia at home in 2017, and in the recently concluded Australia series. The same is being expected once again from the hosts who are favorites to not only winning the match but the series too.

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IND vs ENG Game Plan Fantasy Team

Wicketkeeper- Rishabh Pant

Batsmen- J Root, Shubhman Gill, C Pujara, O Pope

All-rounder- R Ashwin, Ben Stokes, W Sundar

Bowlers- Ishant Sharma, Stuart Broad, Jack Leach

Stats that matter/Captain & vice captain Picks

• Stuart Broad has picked just ten wickets in his six previous Tests in India
• Ajinkya Rahane averages 31.18 in-home Tests and has scored just one century
• Joe Root didn’t manage to score a ton in 2020 but has already scored two hundred and a double hundred since the start of 2021
• Virat Kohli hasn’t hit an international century for 14 months.
• R Ashwin picked a fifer in the last game and is a must-have pick at Chennai’s turning surface

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