2nd Test: 8pm England v India @ Edgbaston July 2-6, 2025

[TheParraboy]

Poms named unchanged team

Hopefully Team India can hold onto some catches this test

Starts tomorrow 8pm

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/archer-return-deferred-as-england-name-unchanged-team-for-second-test-1492856

England have named an unchanged XI for the second Test against India at Edgbaston, which gets underway on Wednesday, meaning that Jofra Archer's much-vaunted return to Test cricket has been deferred at least until next week's third Test at Lord's.

The team was confirmed two days out from the start of the contest, as has become the norm for England under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, and comes in the wake of their impressive five-wicket victory in the first Test at Headingley.

 

[TheParraboy]

Poms won the toss and will field - pussies

 

[TheParraboy]

No Bumrah



England: 1 Zak Crawley, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Ollie Pope, 4 Joe Root, 5 Harry Brook, 6 Ben Stokes (capt), 7 Jamie Smith (wk), 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Brydon Carse, 10 Josh Tongue, 11 Shoaib Bashir.

India: 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 KL Rahul, 3 Karun Nair, 4 Shubman Gill (capt), 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Akash Deep, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Prasidh Krishna

 

[Twizzle]

Indian team missing some big guns there

 

[TheParraboy]

Sir Lordship with the breakthrough

Ind 1/15

 

[jargan83]

Bazball, inverters of attacking cricket with 3 out in the leg side.

Bunch of cowards.

 

[JJ]

Jaiswal is such a talent, imagine if he could catch

 

[JJ]

310/5 at stumps
Gil 114*
Jadeja 41*
Jaiswal 87

 

[TheParraboy]

Knives edge..

 

[TheParraboy]

FFS I just switched over to this and first ball Jadeja gets out trying to cover up a bouncer by tongue

ind 6/414

 

[TheParraboy]

Gill 165* not too shabby, 200 coming ?

 

[yobbo84]

England preparing roads for home test matches just isn't cricket

 

[JJ]

496/5 Gil 222*

England reckon they can chase anything is wickets don't degrade and become benign... it's a strategy, but no different to those that prepare dustbowls

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Gill 250

 

[TheParraboy]

India all out 587
Gill 269

Poms 1/13

Mini Wadey out for a quack

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Northern soap dodgers 3/25

 

[Twizzle]

lol, follow on coming up

 

[TheParraboy]

5/156 (were 5/84)

Smith carving up krishna

 

[Marshall_magic]

Stokes did his best to make sure the Durham captain didn’t have the worst call from a toss this week.

 

[TheParraboy]

last 10 overs

0/79

poms on the rampage

5/211