
Hyderabad: Rohit Sharma succeeding as a captain of Indian cricket team is lacerate to play its first one day international one as Team India will be face England in three-match ODI series will begin at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur on Thursday, February 06.
All players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shubik Gill, K L Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Shami, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, and Rishab Pant the members of the team 2023 ODI world cup will be seen in it. It has been a year since the Indian team has not been able to manage to perform well and win even a single match ODI fixtures. The ODI team will also have new comer such as Yashasvi Jaiswar, Varun Chakraborty, Washington Sundar and Arshdeep Singh.
England, after the loses in the T20I series, would look to come back on the tour and make right selection as they prepare for the Champions Trophy in Pakistan. Notably, it would be the last opportunity for both the teams to assess the strength for their back up and come up with strategies for the ICC events.
In England’s case, the return of a former skipper Joe Root of the test team who has been recently included in the short format to the mandatory ODI World cup means so much more compared to what the T20I series portrayed. Currently, Root has been outstanding in the year 2022; he has scored two hundreds in test cricket and was ranking top on the run getters list in SA20 until he was transferred to Paarl Royals. It is going to the first time that the two sides will face each other in 50-over cricket since the encounter in the recently concluded 2023 ODI World Cup in Lucknow where India had emerged winners by a comfortable 100 runs margin.