England Lions will take on India A for one last time in the one day series on Thursday morning and will look to salvage their pride having already lost the series. The hosts completely dominated the series having won all of the previous four matches. They are now eyeing a clean sweep in the final match and that would be quite an achievement for a young Indian outfit.
Although the young English players have come up with some inspiring individual performances, it's the collective effort that they have fallen short of. That is the reason why they are behind in the series by such a huge margin and played the catch up game all along. They would be hoping to get it right for one last time and show what they are made of.
Weather and Pitch conditions: Bright and sunny skies throughout the day. The pitch has been helpful for pacers initially and has assisted the spinners as the match progressed. The batsmen have played some good innings too. So, it has something for everybody at different phases of the match.
Predicted XIs:
India A:Ankit Bawne[C], Ruturaj Gaikwad, Lokesh Rahul, Ricky Bhui, Rishabh Pant (wk) Deepak Hooda, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini, Avesh Khan
England Lions:Alex Davies, Will Jacks, Sam Hain, Ben Duckett, Sam Billings(C & WK), Ollie Pope, Steven Mullaney, Lewis Gregory, Jamie Overton, Danny Briggs, Matthew Carter
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Wicket-Keeper: Rishabh Pant (10 Cr)
Pant played a superb knock of an unbeaten
England Lions will take on India A for one last time in the one day series on Thursday morning and will look to salvage their pride having already lost the series. The hosts completely dominated the series having won all of the previous four matches. They are now eyeing a clean sweep in the final match and that would be quite an achievement for a young Indian outfit.
Although the young English players have come up with some inspiring individual performances, it's the collective effort that they have fallen short of. That is the reason why they are behind in the series by such a huge margin and played the catch up game all along. They would be hoping to get it right for one last time and show what they are made of.
Weather and Pitch conditions: Bright and sunny skies throughout the day. The pitch has been helpful for pacers initially and has assisted the spinners as the match progressed. The batsmen have played some good innings too. So, it has something for everybody at different phases of the match.
Predicted XIs:
India A:Ankit Bawne[C], Ruturaj Gaikwad, Lokesh Rahul, Ricky Bhui, Rishabh Pant (wk) Deepak Hooda, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini, Avesh Khan
England Lions:Alex Davies, Will Jacks, Sam Hain, Ben Duckett, Sam Billings(C & WK), Ollie Pope, Steven Mullaney, Lewis Gregory, Jamie Overton, Danny Briggs, Matthew Carter
Player Recommendations:
Wicket-Keeper: Rishabh Pant (10 Cr)
Pant played a superb knock of an unbeaten 73 off just 76 deliveries in the previous match and thus helped India A to beat England Lions by 6 wickets. He has been in superb form of late for the Indian national team as well and can be expected to score more runs in this match.
Batsman: Sam Billings (10 Cr)
The Lions Captain played an unbeaten knock of 108 in the first match of the series. However, his form fizzled away after that with scores of 12,4 and 24. The last match of the series and the desperation to win might work well for him once again. He can be expected to score big.
All-rounder: Lewis Gregory (9.5 Cr)
The English all-rounder might not have fired with the bat having scored only 48 runs. However, he has been highly effective with the ball as he has picked up 7 wickets in the 4 matches so far.
Bowler: Avesh Khan (8 Cr)
Avesh Khan impressed on his first ever opportunity in the series with a spell of 7-1-21-1 in the previous match. He bowled with pace and troubled the batsmen continuously. More wickets can be expected from him in this match.
Captain: Lewis Gregory
Vice-Captain: Rishabh Pant
