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IND vs ENG LIVE SCORE, 1st T20: India vs England 1st T20 Live: With just three months left, time for experimentation is over in T20s. After handing over 7 debut caps in the last nine months, Rohit Sharma & Co have just 15 games to finalise the squad for the T20 World Cup. The first T20 against England will be their first real test. Even though Virat Kohli and other Test players will be missing, it will be an opportunity to finalise the bench strength. Follow India Tour of England Live Updates on InsideSport.IN.

Skipper Rohit Sharma, who missed the fifth Test in Birmingham after contracting COVID-19, will be travelling to the port city on Wednesday and is expected to feature in the series-opener.

IND vs ENG LIVE Score: No more EXPERIMENTATIONS, Rohit Sharma & Rahul Dravid start identifying best XI for T20 World Cup: Follow 1st T20 Live Updates

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.@BCCI have arrived at The Ageas Bowl ahead of the first T20 international against @englandcricket on Thursday 🙌

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— The Ageas Bowl (@TheAgeasBowl) July 5, 2022

IND vs ENG LIVE Score: Who are missing 1st T20?

Virat Kohli
Jasprit Bumrah
Ravindra Jadeja
Shreyas Iyer
Rishabh Pant

Their absence would give fringe players like Ruturaj Gaikwad and Sanju Samson one more game to make a statement though they seem to have fallen in the pecking order in India’s list of probables for the World Cup in Australia.

A niggle meant Gaikwad could not open alongside Ishan Kishan in the two games in Ireland and if Rohit is back, he will have to warm the bench once again.

IND vs ENG LIVE Score: No more EXPERIMENTATIONS, Rohit Sharma & Rahul Dravid start identifying best XI for T20 World Cup: Follow 1st T20 Live Updates

IND vs ENG LIVE: What will be the combination?

The England series will mark the beginning of the process to identify its best XI for the marquee event.
For England, the series marks the beginning of the Jos Buttler era following the retirement of Eoin Morgan.
Ben Stokes and star of the fifth Test against India, Jonny Bairstow, have been rested from the series.
However, there is enough firepower in the England batting to rattle the opposition.
Both Buttler and Liam Livingstone showed devastating form in the IPL and would be looking to build on that.
Kishan has done reasonably well in the chances that he has got and he will look to strengthen his position in the team as a reserve opener with a substantial knock against mighty England.
With Kohli expected to be back at number three from game two, Deepak Hooda will be aiming for another match-winning effort to keep himself in the mix.
With a century and 47 not out against Ireland, Hooda has certainly made it tougher for the team management to keep him out of the eleven.
The uncapped duo of Rahul Tripathi and Arshdeep Singh have not been included for second and third T20 and it is unlikely they will get a look in on Thursday.
Suryakumar Yadav, who made a comeback from injury against Ireland, could not get going in the games in Malahide and will be backing himself to get back to his innovative best. He and Hooda were amongst the runs in the warm-up against Derbyshire last week.

IND vs ENG LIVE Score: No more EXPERIMENTATIONS, Rohit Sharma & Rahul Dravid start identifying best XI for T20 World Cup: Follow 1st T20 Live Updates

India have about 15 T20 games to play before the T20 World Cup in Australia in October — three against England in the current series, five against the West Indies (July 29-August 7), about 5 in Asia Cup (August-September) and three against Australia (September).

India Probable XI: Rohit Sharma (captain), Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Avesh Khan/ Umran Malik/ Arshdeep Singh

England Playing XI: Jos Buttler (C and WK), Jason Roy, Dawid Malan, Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Phil Salt, David Willey, Reece Topley, Tymal Mills