England vs India 2nd Day 1 Test Match: The second Test of Tendulkar-Anderson Series 2025 is being played from Wednesday (2 July) at Edgbaston, Birmingham. In this match, England captain Ben Stokes won the toss and took India down to bat first. In this match, Team India has landed with 3 major changes. Jaspreet Bumrah, Sai Sudarshan and Shardul Thakur have been discharged from the playing XI. Instead of these three players, Washington Sundar, Nitish Reddy and Akash Deep have got the opportunity.
Indian team for Edgbaston: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Shubman Gill (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Akash Deep, Mohammad Siraj, famous Krishna.
England’s playing at Edgbaston 11: Jack Craulie, Ben Docket, Oli Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (Captain), Jamie Smith (wicket -keeper), Chris Woakes, Bridan Cars, Josh Tung, Shoaib Bashir.
Let us know that the Indian team lost by 5 wickets in the first match in Leeds.
Kuldeep did not get a chance
After the defeat in the first Test, it was believed that Kuldeep Yadav would be given a chance in this second Test. But the team management gave Jadeja and Sundar a chance. Sundar has been given the opportunity due to his batting skill. At the same time, Sai Sudarshan, who made her debut in the last match, has been discharged from the playing XI. Sai had failed to show power in batting. At the same time, in the last match, both the bowling and batting of Shardul Thakur flopped. In such a situation, they too have been shown the way out of the playing XI.
India has played 8 Test matches so far on Edgbaston ground, out of which it has lost and a match has been drawn. In Edgbaston, the first bowling team is in profit.
Here in the last four Tests, only the team who batted in the second innings has won. It also includes its biggest successful run to India by England in 2022.
But in the last few years, spinners have not got much help in Edgbaston. This has been the third worst ground for spinners in England’s seven Test venue since 2020. Here fast bowlers have got a wicket for 30 runs on an average, while spinners have to spend 44.45 runs for one wicket. Talking about the weather, rain is expected in Birmingham on the fourth and fifth day.