Dharamsala | England won the toss and elected to bat against India in the fifth and final Test here on Thursday.
Veteran Indian off-spinner R Ashwin will play his 100th Test here, so is England batter Jonny Bairstow.
India also handed Test debut to Karnataka batter Devdutt Padikkal, who had an excellent 2023-24 domestic season. He has come in place of an injured Rajat Patidar.
The BCCI informed that Patidar got a hit on his left ankle during the training here on Wednesday.
“Rajat Patidar got hit on his left ankle during Team India's practice session on March 6, 2024. He pulled up sore on the morning of the game and was not available for selection for the 5th Test,” said the BCCI in a statement.
Leading pacer Jasprit Bumrah is back in India eleven after the management gave him rest in the fourth Test in Ranchi. He has come in place of Akash Deep.
India have taken an unassailable 3-1 lead in the series.
The Teams:
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Devdutt Padikkal, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Siraj.
England: Ben Stokes (Captain), Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Foakes (Wk), Tom Hartley, Mark Wood, James Anderson, Shoaib Bashir
Kuldeep Yadav, who grabbed five wickets, and 100th Test man Ravichandran Ashwin helped India bundle out England for a woeful 218 in their first innings on Day 1 of the fifth Test here on Thursday.
Kuldeep (5/72) and Ashwin (4/51) ran through the England batting line-up as the visitors lost eight wickets for 118 runs across post-lunch and post-tea sessions.
Opener Zak Crawley (79, 108 balls) offered lone resistance for England.
There were two partnerships in the middle-order -- 37 between Crawley and Joe Root for third wicket and 38 between Root and 100-Test-man Jonny Bairstow for the fourth wicket -- but they were not sufficient for the visitors.
There was a point in England innings when they lost five wickets for mere eight runs as Kuldeep, Ashwin, and Ravindra Jadeja got into the act.
Brief scores: England: 218 all out in 57.4 overs (Zak Crawley 79; Kuldeep Yadav 5/72, R Ashwin 4/51).
Scoreboard: Fifth Test, Day 1, IND vs ENG Dharamsala, Mar 7 (PTI) Scoreboard on the opening day of the fifth and final Test between India and England here on Thursday.
England 1st Innings:
Zak Crawley b Kuldeep Yadav 79
Ben Duckett c Shubman Gill b Kuldeep Yadav 27 Ollie Pope st Jurel b Kuldeep Yadav 11
Joe Root lbw b Jadeja 26
Jonny Bairstow c Jurel b Kuldeep Yadav 29 Ben Stokes lbw b Kuldeep Yadav 0
Ben Foakes b Ashwin 24
Tom Hartley c Padikkal b Ashwin 6
Mark Wood c Sharma b Ashwin 0
Shoaib Bashir not out 11
James Anderson c Padikkal b Ashwin 0
Extras: (B-2, LB-1, NB-2) 5
Total: (All out in 57.4 overs) 218
Fall of wickets: 1-64, 2-100, 3-137, 4-175, 5-175, 6-175, 7-183, 8-183, 9-218, 10-218 Bowling: Jasprit Bumrah 13-2-51-0, Mohammed Siraj 8-1-24-0, Ravichandran Ashwin 11.4-1-51-4, Kuldeep Yadav 15-1-72-5, Ravindra Jadeja 10-2-17-1.
