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Big Image: An air of vulnerability in both camps

There are two indiia.

At the same time, there is also another India, an India with a definitely post-Rohit, Post-Kohli era, an India that has flown to staggering heights in recent months.

There are two indiia, but there are three formats. So how accurately do they stand as the awkward middle format gets this rare chance in the limelight? India in ODIs is still India of Rohit and Kohli, but what does it mean for India, Rohit and Kohli? There are several questions hanging over India ahead of these three ODDs against England and Champions Trophy that will follow, but this one now sees the most urgent.

India last played ODIs in August when they lost 2-0 to Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka. It seemed like an anomal result then, but events that followed it have thrown it into another light. When India returns to the 50-over format, they are then in a strange position. They are still more or less the same team that looked like one of the greatest of the time during their race to the World Cup in 2023. But even though the players are pretty much the same, they no longer play together day in and day out they are Still the same team? And so many of them carry wounds from other strokes, which brings to this group a marked air of vulnerability.

But broadcasts of vulnerability – and invincibility – come and go depending on results. India -the other India, admittedly -is fresh from a 4-1 T20i series of victory, and should count itself as heavy favorites against an England’s side coming out of the T20i result and still trying to find the feet in ODIs after a poor 2023 World Cup.

And England is also fighting for the middle format. This is still England by Jos Buttler and Joe Root, but played none of them a single ODDI in 2024.

So here we are. India of Rohit and Kohli versus England of Buttler and Root, both uncertain how exactly they are in ODDs, with a large ODD tournament that starts in two weeks.

Form Guide

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In the limelight: Hardik Pandya and Joe Root

Rohit and Kohli may be under more control at the moment, but no doubt no player is so important to India’s Champions Trophy -Håb as Hardik Pandya is. Until his premature departure from the World Cup in 2023 with an ankle injury, Hardik’s presence india let India have six bowling options and gave them the luxury of playing a third front -line or spinner depending on the conditions. Hardik has not played an ODD since this tournament, and as the next big weaver, India hopes his body can take a real all -rounder workload again.

He has been out of England’s Odi side since their league-phase output from the World Cup in 2023, but Joe Root is back and will beat # 3rd. “He is one of the big players in the game, in all formats,” the Captain Buttler of the England said of Root at his press conference before the match. “I am excited to see him in this kind of phase of his career where I look at what he has done in the things of the test where he has not had the captain. He is kind of back with the naughty smile on his face and really enjoy His cricket. Since the world cup.

Team News: England Rest Mark Wood

India is expected to stand with their first -choice top six from the World Cup in 2023, with only the wicket holder’s castle during the debate. Rishabh Pant could potentially enter in front of KL Rahul thanks to his left hand. Meanwhile, Nagpur with his big outfield and tendency to slow turners is probably a three-spinner place that lets India choose two out of their three spin-bowling allrounders to Partner KoldeP Yadav, which returns for the first time since his hernia surgery.

India (Probable): 1 Rohit Sharma (Capt), 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 at Rahul/Rishabh Pant (WK), 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 and 8 Two of Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel and Washington Sundar , 9 KoldeP Yadav, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Mohammed Shami

England has named their XI for the series opener, with Mark Wood rested and Saqib Mahmood collaborates Jofra Archer and Brydon Carse in the tempo attack. With only four frontline bowlers, part-time spinners are expected Liam Livingstone, Root and Jacob Bethell to carry a significant bowling workload.

England: 1 leg duck kett, 2 phil salt (wk), 3 joe root, 4 Harry Brook, 5 Jos Buttler (CAPT), 6 Liam Livingstone, 7 Jacob Bethell, 8 Brydon Carse, 9 Jofra Archer, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Saqib Mahmood

Pitch and relationship

A clear, sunny day is expected in nagpur with daytime temperatures in the low 30s. The course at VCA Stadium in recent years has tended to offer a good amount of help to spinners who also appreciate the long boundaries on this reason. The last three ODIs in Nagpur were all India-Australia competitions won by the hosts: A memorable hunt for 351 in 2013 run by one of Kohli’s great hundreds, followed by significantly lower scoring matches in 2017 and 2019.

Statistics and Trivia: Virat Kohli at CUSP of 14,000

  • Both India (2-3) and England (4-7) Has negative win-loss records in ODIs since the end of the World Cup in 2023.
  • Kohli is 94 races away from the 14,000 mark in ODDs. Only Sachin Tendulkar (18,426) and Kumar Sangaccara (14,234) have More races in the format.
  • Mohammed Shami are five wickets away from becoming the eighth India bowler to take 200 in ODIs.
  • Since the last time they played together, which was at the World Cup in 2023, Buttler has played 23 matches for England (three ODDs and 20 T20i’s) and Root 17 (all tests).

Quotes

“The World Cup was a year and a half back, so we have to re -group like a group now and think about what to do here (…), it’s just about getting together now – because it’s been a while since we ‘Ve played this format – it’s just about getting together and trying to (continue from) where we left (turned off) during the World Cup.
Rohit Sharma is pragmatic as India returns to the ODD format

“I look back on (2023) World Cup and the two teams in the final played a truly positive and aggressive brand of cricket. You think in the way Travis Head took the final with bat you see that it can be successful. So absolutely will we do exactly the same.
Jos Buttler is aware of the approach he wants England to adopt with bats

Karthik Krishnaswamy is assistant editor at ESPNCRIINFO