IND vs ENG 1st T20 at Eden Gardens: The 5-match T20 series between the Indian team and England is going to start today (January 22). The first match of the series will be played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata from 7 pm. England has announced its playing-11 a day before. Whereas the Indian playing-11 under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav will be announced at the time of toss only.
The record of the Indian team on the ground of Kolkata is very strong, but there is an alarm bell for it too. Actually, the Indian team has played a total of 8 T20 matches so far in Eden Gardens, Kolkata, out of which it has lost one. One match was inconclusive.
The alarm bell is that the only match that the Indian team has lost on this ground was against England. Team India played its first T20 match at Eden Gardens on 29 October 2011. Coincidentally, this match was against England. In such a situation, this time again the English team can dominate. Due to this the Indian team will have to be cautious.
Kohli played his first match against England
In this very first match, England had defeated the Indian team by 6 wickets. At that time Mahendra Singh Dhoni was commanding the Indian team. Whereas the command of the English team was in the hands of Graeme Swann. Now the England team will play its second T20 match at Eden Gardens, while this will be the 9th match of the Indian team.
In that first match, Virat Kohli was the only Indian, who is included in the team this time too. In such a situation, he would definitely like to make his team win against England this time. Last time against England, Kohli had scored 15 runs in 16 balls. In that match, after winning the toss and batting first, the Indian team scored 120 runs for 9 wickets. In reply, England won the match in 18.4 overs after losing 4 wickets.
India-England T20 Head to Head
total matches 24
india won 13
England won 11
India-England squads for T20 series
Indian team: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel (vice-captain), Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Shami, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi. , Washington Sundar and Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper).
English team: Jos Buttler (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethel, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Ben Duckett, Jamie Overton, Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid, Saqib Mahmood, Phil Salt and Mark Wood.