Welcome to the preview of India vs England 2nd ODI. In the 1st ODI India successfully chased down England and won the match by 5 wickets. After the loss of the 1st match, England coming with the intention of winning both the matches.
When we see the stats of the T20 series and ODI 1st match, India has a clear domination over England. This says that there are higher chances of India’s victory. It is not about convincing, England is failing to compete with India. In the first ODI India was about to chase if the score is beyond 350+. England is totally struggling, collapsing in between, there is no confidence in the team to win over India.
It’s not about underestimation, England might win in some circumstances. Accordingly, it’s only about stats, India might win the 2nd ODI too.
When we compare playing 11 , England might be having the same playing 11 as the 1st ODI. And some minor changes wii be done in Indian squad
In the 1st ODI Virat Kohli did not play the match because of knee injury. In 2nd ODI it’s very sure Virat Kohli will be playing. Virat will be replacing Yashaswi Jaiswal who has to go out of the match. Openers will be Rohit Sharma and Shubhman Gill. Here we can ask that they could have given one more chance to Yashaswi Jaiswal. But the performance by Yashaswi Jaiswal in the 1st ODI is not upto the mark. And we cannot bring Rohit Sharma as he is the captain of India. It was debut match for Yashasvi Jaiswal, if he had performed well in the debut match, they had given him chance to play in 2nd ODI too.
There are lot of confusions, who will be coming to the ground Arshdeep Singh or Harshit Rana. Harshit has has performed well in the previous match. Though he was expensive in the early overs and made a good comeback in later overs by taking wickets in the crucial time. The chance can be given based on previous matche performance. If Arshdeep Singh has played previous match instead of Harshit Rana and he performed better. Then there are chances that Arshdeep Singh will be playing in 2nd ODI. Now its totally like confusions between Harshit Rana and Arshdeep Singh, whom to give chance in 2nd ODI.
Mohammed Shami has to play who is a sure selection for Champions trophy. Still the confusions are going between Kuldeep Yadav and Varun Chakravarthy, for whom the chance has to be given. Varun Chakravarthy gave an extraordinary performance in the T20 series against the same England squad. He also included in the Champions trophy, but to involve in the playing 11, he has to increase his performance level in this ODI series. Hence the Indian management is still watching to give chance to Varun Chakravarthy. There are lot of confusions in Indian playing 11 especially in bowling.
Ground report:
The match will be playing in Barabati Stadium, Cuttack. The last men ODI played 2019 in this ground. It’s been 5 years, What India will do in this ground after 5 years? We all have wait for this.
India won all the last 7 matches, and maintained a good stats. These stats gives a confidance that India might win.
When it comes men’s ODIs , India has played a total of 17 matches. Out of which India has won 13 matches. Only fews matches have lost by India.
When it comes to India versus England, 5 matches have been played yet. In total of 17 matches , 5 matches are India versus England. Out of which India has won 3 matches and 2 matches by England. There is not much difference, both the teams are almost side to side.
Highest score recored in this ground is 469 by Sachin Tendulkar. And the highest wickets by Anil Kumble.
Highest team score recored is 381 by India against England in 2017. And lowest 1st innings score 170 recorded in 2007. The game might be highest scoring or lowest scoring with an average score of 260-280 in thus venue.
Whenever we include both men and women’s ODI, a total of 27 matches have been played yet. Majority of the matches i.e 16 matches won by the team which was chasing down. 9 matches won by the team who took batting first . It’s not like the team which takes batting first will be losing sure ,or no assist at all . It’s all about ,the team which takes bowling first has an advantage and better option according to the previous stats.
It looks like, England will not be doing the same mistake of what they did in the first match. They might come for the esy chase down They knew that if they opt for opt batting first, sure India will easily chase down. So they might analyse the stats of the pitch and ready to take bowling this time.
If India won the toss, obviously they look for bowling first. Will see what what happens in this match. Virat Kohli is returning. It’s a huge come back to the 2nd ODI. Virat Kohli was well performed in World cup and his performance drastically dropped down. No runs has come up with his bat in recent matches. This time we all expect Virat Kohli to return to this form.
In the 1st ODI no runs came from the openers. They got out at a very little score. In the 2nd ODI Rohit Sharma and Shubhman Gill might be opening. In the previous match Shubhman Gill played well and scored 80+ runs. The main player Rohit Sharma has been struggling a lot in recent matches, Rohit should make a huge comeback in this series to play well in Champions trophy 2025.We can expect an opening partnership to an appreciable extent this time.