Apart from Virat Kohli, all-rounder Hardik Pandya and veteran pacer Ishant Sharma have also returned to the Test Cricket.
India will take on England in the first Test of the four-match series at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Friday.
With the return of Virat Kohli against Joe Root’s England, a confident India will aim to soar higher during a four-Test series starting Friday with both sides bidding to qualify for the final of the World Test Championship.
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The world’s highest wicket-taking seam bowler, James Anderson, will test the patience of Rohit Sharma and the technique of Shubman Gill again using the pronounced seam of the red SG Test while preparing a tough set of questions for the Indian captain in the corridor of uncertainty.
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SQUADS
India: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (w), Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mayank Agarwal, Wriddhiman Saha.
Standby: KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shahbaz Nadeem, Rahul Chahar
Net bowlers: Ankit Rajpoot, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Warrier, K Gowtham, Saurabh Kumar
England: Rory Burns, Dominic Sibley, Daniel Lawrence, Joe Root (c), Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Jos Buttler (w), Moeen Ali, Jofra Archer, Jack Leach, Stuart Broad, James Anderson, Chris Woakes, Ben Foakes, Olly Stone, Dominic Bess.
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