After making their presence sounded in the 1st Test, England now revealed their playing 11 for the 2nd Test which will start on 2nd February in Vizag.
Jack Leach will be unavailable due to the injury, whereas Shoaib Bashir will mark his debut tomorrow. Earlier due to the visa issues Shoaib was unable to mark his presence on the 1st Test, but now after clearly the issues he will be going to play for the very first time.
Mark Wood will also have to exit from the Playing 11 as the most experienced player in the squad, James Anderson, will play. The remaining team is going to be the same. Skipper Ben Stokes will again use three spinners and 1 pacer combination and he and Joe Root will be the part timers.
Stokes and company registered victory in the first test match by 28 runs in Hyderabad and they are now 1-0 ahead in the five match series against India.
Not only the English team sustaining the injury but also KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja could not play for India due to the injuries. Sarfaraz Khan, Washington Sundar and Saurabh Kumar will be the new faces in the Indian squad.
England playing 11:
Ben Stokes ©, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Foakes (wk), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, James Anderson.