India's new fast bowling hope Gurnoor Brar, after an impressive start against Afghanistan at home, will face a completely different challenge with his lengths on English tracks. Arshdeep Singh will certainly add dimension as the left-arm seamer in the pack while Shivam Dube, a forced choice due to the absence of an injured Hardik Pandya and Nitish Kumar Reddy, will be the fourth seamer at Edgbaston.

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England (Playing XI): Jacob Bethell, Ben Duckett, Joe Root, Harry Brook (c), Jos Buttler (wk), Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Jofra Archer, Liam Dawson, Josh Tongue, Adil Rashid

According to a report by the Times of India, the BCCI is looking to implement a rotation policy, in order to test all the players ahead of the 2027 World Cup. However, the management is hesitating to convey this message to the senior duo of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. As per the plans, the management wants to test every player in the squad by giving them a chance in the XI. For that, Kohli and Rohit also have to make way for someone. 

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma presence for this series certainly holds more significance after the Indian team, under a new T20 skipper Shreyas Iyer, lost all but one of its seven T20I matches in the ongoing tour. The only match they didn't lose was a game that got abandoned. The 0-2 defeat versus Ireland and 0-4 thrashing handed by England has opened a Pandora's Box with BCCI calling for a performance review.

Virat Kohli returns on the verge of multiple milestones. Birmingham is set to witness his 300th ODI innings, while another productive series could take the former captain beyond 15,000 ODI runs. Since the beginning of 2025, he has averaged an astonishing 123 across his last seven ODI innings.

India's batting once again wears a familiar look. Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill are set to reunite at the top of the order, a partnership that averages 60.9 in ODIs. Gill heads into the series in red-hot form, having amassed 373 runs in five innings this year at an average of 93.3 and a strike rate of 117, including three half-centuries and a hundred.

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, along with Jasprit Bumrah, are back in the mix to play the format in which bilaterals have been losing both context and sheen amid growing popularity of T20 cricket. The 39-year-old Rohit and the soon-to-be 38 Kohli still have the fire in their bellies and the runs to show for their efforts as they aim for a ODI World Cup swansong.

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma return to the Indian team for the first time since the start of the year against when India had squared off against New Zealand. With India heading into the 3-match ODI series against England on the back of a 0-4 defeat in T20Is, Kohli will be key to the team's plans of redemption. 

The talismanic batter would also be keen to topple Rahul Dravid and become India's highest-scoring player against England in ODIs.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the first ODI of the three-match series between India and England, straight from the Edgbaston, Birmingham. Stay tuned for all the live updates.