England kick-off an enormous second half of 2025 with a five-match Take a look at collection towards previous rivals India.
India are the guests this time, with Ben Stokes and co seeking to avenge the 4-1 collection defeat away from residence final yr.
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England are on residence soil and may have circumstances they know, and a win could be an enormous increase heading into The Ashes later this yr.
The final word take a look at for any England Take a look at staff is an away journey to Australia.
If Brendon McCullum’s males pull off victory over India and go on to reclaim the well-known urn, Bazball’s critics could be silenced.
However India are not any pushovers and boast a few of the world’s greatest gamers and some who’re but to show themselves in English circumstances.
And what’s even higher is that listeners from abroad can observe the entire motion on talkSPORT.
England vs India: Matches
- First Take a look at: June 20-24, Headingley, Leeds – 11:00am
- Second Take a look at: July 2-6, Edgbaston, Birmingham – 11:00am
- Third Take a look at: July 10-14, Lord’s, London – 11:00am
- Fourth Take a look at: July 23-27, Previous Trafford, Manchester – 11:00am
- Fifth Take a look at: July 31-August 4, The Oval, London – 11:00am
England vs India: talkSPORT protection
For the primary time ever, talkSPORT abroad listeners can tune into protection of an England residence Take a look at collection by way of the talkSPORT Cricket YouTube channel.
Our knowledgeable staff will take you thru the entire motion ball-by-ball and contains England legend Steve Harmison, former New Zealand star Jeremy Coney and iconic broadcaster David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd.
They are going to be joined by consultants Jon Norman, Neil Manthorp and Jarrod Kimber.
Sadly, UK-based listeners cannot tune in, however talkSPORT.com can be proper throughout all of the motion to maintain you updated.
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England vs India: TV channel
Sky Sports activities can be exhibiting your complete collection throughout Major Occasion and Cricket.
Sky Go clients can tune in by way of their laptops or cellular gadgets.
Alternatively, a NOW TV package deal will be bought. Extra data right here.
England vs India: Squads
England have thus far named their squad for the primary Take a look at, with the potential for that to vary because the summer time progresses.
Gus Atkinson and Jofra Archer are out with accidents, however it’s doable the latter returns later within the collection.
Surrey’s Jamie Overton is recalled for the primary time since 2022.
Jacob Bethell, Chris Woakes and Brydon Carse all return after lacking the one-off Zimbabwe Take a look at.
In the meantime for India, there was an enormous altering of the guard.
Stalwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have retired from Take a look at cricket, which means Shubman Gil has been named captain with Rishabh Pant the deputy.
Regardless of two of the perfect deciding to name it a day, they nonetheless have an immensely gifted staff.
England’s squad: Ben Stokes (C), Shoaib Bashir, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Sam Prepare dinner, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Jamie Overton, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jamie Smith (WK), Josh Tongue, Chris Woakes
India’s squad: Shubman Gill (C), Jasprit Bumrah, Akash Deep, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Ravindra Jadeja, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Prasidh Krishna, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant (WK), KL Rahul, Nitish Reddy, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Siraj, Sai Sudharsan, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav
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England vs India: What has been mentioned?
Stokes needed to hit again at critics a number of weeks in the past who had steered that the England captain was planning to drop Ollie Pope.
This got here after Stokes praised Jacob Bethell’s performances at quantity three in New Zealand over the winter.
In defence of Pope, he mentioned: “That was written to swimsuit an agenda that was being mentioned away from what’s within the staff.
“It’s unlucky that you simply say one thing and it will probably get twisted. I made it very clear to Popey the night time earlier than this Take a look at that isn’t the case. He’s my vice-captain and he’s been unimaginable.
“Popey is aware of how a lot I worth him, not solely as a participant but in addition as a frontrunner, as a vice-captain.
“He’s somebody who I lean on loads on the market. He’s excellent particularly once I’m bowling, about a number of issues which are loads simpler to overlook once I’ve acquired my bowling head on. So, only a large misinterpretation.”