England have won the toss and elected to bat against India in the first test starting 1st August. Surprising to see that India have left out Pujara from the starting XI and Rahul will bat at No. 3. The pitch has some moisture and as the game proceeds the pitch will behave differently.

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India Playing XI: Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (capt.), Ajinkya Rahane, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma

England Playing XI: Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Joe Root (capt.), Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Adil Rashid, Stuart Broad, James Anderson