Rahul Dravid On Hyderabad Pitch: The five-match Test series between India and England is to start from January 25. The first match of this test series is to be played in Hyderabad. Everyone's eyes are fixed on the Hyderabad pitch. Meanwhile, Team India's head coach Rahul Dravid has made a big claim about the Hyderabad pitch.
Before the India-England Test series, head coach Rahul Dravid said, it is difficult to say anything about the pitch right now. We will know about it when the match starts. From what I have seen this pitch is looking good. The spinners will get turn from the pitch. I can't say anything right now about how soon or how fast. As the game progresses, the ball will definitely get turn.
On the other hand, England fast bowler Mark Wood admitted that his team has also discussed about the pitch. He said, we have discussed the pitch. We are not too worried about it. There is so much confidence in our group that we can do something special. We have spinners, we have fast bowlers, we have good batsmen and our performance in recent times has been very good. This will be quite difficult. Because we are not used to playing on such pitches. We have to find a way to do this.
Indian team for the first two test matches: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj. , Mukesh Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Avesh Khan.
England team for the five-match Test series against India- Ben Stokes (captain), Rehan Ahmed, James Anderson, Gus Atkinson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Shoaib Bashir, Harry Brook, Jack Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ben Fox (wk), Tom Hartley, Jack Leach, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson , Joe Root and Mark Wood.
Complete schedule of India-England test series
1st Test: India v England, January 25-29, Hyderabad (Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium)
2nd Test: India vs England, 2-6 February, Visakhapatnam (Dr YS Rajasekhar Cricket Stadium)
3rd Test: India vs England, 15-19 February, Rajkot (Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium)
4th Test: India vs England, 23-27 February, Ranchi (JSCA International Stadium)
Fifth Test: India vs England, March 7-11, Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium)
