India vs England Live Score, 5th test Day 1: ENG 7/0 after 3.0 overs ...

India vs England Live Score, 5th test Day 1: Zack Crawley and Ben Duckett are opening the batting for England in Dharmshala. The two openers are looking positive on the crease even though ball seems to be doing something for the new ball pair of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj.

Earlier in the day, Ben Stokes led England won the toss and decided to bat first at the HPCA cricket stadium in Dharamshala. The Indian captain said he would have liked to bat first as well. India make two changes with Akash Deep missing out in favour of Jasprit Bumrah while Devdutt Paddikal makes his Test debut. 

Meanwhile, the Dharamshala Test will be special for 2 players - Ravichandran Ashwin and Jonny Bairstow - who will be playing their 100th Test match. This prestigious achievement comes shortly after Ashwin recently reached 500 Test wickets milestone.

The surface in Dharamshala is likely to be a batting-friendly track but could also offer assistance to pacers in the initial phase of the game. Meanwhile, the surface is likely to get slower and offer more assistance to the spinners as the game goes on.

England Playing XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (C) Ben Foakes (WK), Tom Hartley, Mark Wood, James Anderson, Shoaib Bashir.

India's squad for the 5th Test: Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (WK), KS Bharat (WK), Devdutt Padikkal, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep

07 Mar 2024, 10:31:12 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: India take their first DRS in a bid to get the wicket of Zack Crawley, only for the appeal to be rejected based on ‘Umpire’s call'. The Indian bowlers are continuing  to keep the pressure up on these English openers with a ball continuing to swing even after around 12 overs being bowled. 

07 Mar 2024, 10:07:25 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: Jasprit Bumrah is looking very threatening at the moment, routinely bowling many special deliveries that are troubling the batters and making them rethink their strategy. A good first half and hour of play for now.

Duckett 10 (27)

Crawley 11 (21)

07 Mar 2024, 09:55:57 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: A great contest going on between bat and ball in Dharamshala. Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj are looking dangerous at the moment, swinging the ball both ways and getting the ball to past bat on many occasions.

Zack Crawley 7 (15)

Ben Duckett 4 (15)

07 Mar 2024, 09:46:39 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: This Dharamshala pitch is doing something for the new ball bowling pair of Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah. Meanwhile, Zack Crawley has looked positive in the innings, trying to score runs instead of just defending the ball. Meanwhile, Ben Duckett is yet to open his account in this match.

Crawley 7 (12) 

Duckett 0 (6)

07 Mar 2024, 09:37:19 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: Jasprit Bumrah started the proceedings for India at the HPCA stadium in Dharamshala. The Indian pacer got some movement from the ground in his first over and will try to put Ben Duckett and Zack Crawley under pressure during this initial phase of the match.

07 Mar 2024, 09:23:11 AM IST

India vs England Live Score:  R Ashwin will play his 100th Test match today at the HPCA cricket stadium. Ashwin will have the chance to join the likes of Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralidharan and Anil Kumble who have all taken 5ver in their 100th Test match.

07 Mar 2024, 09:10:51 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: India's squad for the 5th Test: Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (WK),  Devdutt Padikkal, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj

07 Mar 2024, 09:06:28 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: Ben Stokes won the toss and decided to bat first at the HPCA stadium in Dharamshala. Rohit Sharma said he would have liked to bat first as well. 

The Indian captain said Dharamshala could be a good batting pitch but could get slower and slower as the match goes on.

Meanwhile, Devdutt Paddikal will make his Test debut for India.

07 Mar 2024, 08:55:21 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: Rohit Sharma will soon join Ben Stokes for the toss at HPCA stadium in Dharamshala. While England have already announced their playing XI, India have a few tough choices to make today.

07 Mar 2024, 08:52:27 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: Speaking to ANI, Panesar said "Ashwin has been absolutely brilliant. The first I came across him was during a Test series in India (2012). Role-wise, he has been there working out angles and engineering his way to dismissals. I think he is brilliant at how he changed the revolutions on the ball and enriched the art of spin bowling. It is all about angles, mathematics and data. So, I think he is the engineer of spin bowling,"

07 Mar 2024, 08:34:42 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: Rohit Sharma while speaking about the importance of domestic cricket said, “There has been talk about this for a long, long time. That when the players are available, they've got to make themselves available to play domestic cricket, unless they have been given a certificate from the medical group that they want to be rested or will not be taking part in domestic cricket. But if you're available, if you're fit, if you're fine, I think it is important that we go and play that. It is not for just a few cricketers, it is for everyone to make sure that whenever you're available and fine, you should be able to play domestic cricket,"

07 Mar 2024, 08:25:26 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: Speaking at the pre-match press conference, Stokes said, "I am not the one who is out there doing that. This is probably going to be more of an emotional thing for Jonny than it ever was for me. I do not need to go into details as to why about the whole family. He has got his mam, sister, partner, little baby boy and some friends here."

"Playing for England means so much to Jonny and means so much to his family as well and to play over 100 ODIs, 100 Tests - a lot of cricket for England - it means a hell of a lot to him. He deserves everything that gets spoken about him in the build-up to the game and throughout the week as well," added the English skipper

07 Mar 2024, 08:16:19 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: Speaking on his YouTube channel, de villiers said, "Virat Kohli has hinted that he might want me to come over just to spend a bit of time with him and some of the batter perhaps. I think the call has got to come from Andy Flower, Faf and the team. But for now, I am just going to be in Mumbai for the first few weeks of the IPL and doing a bit of commentary so do watch our live streams. I will also be back at the backend for the knockouts.

07 Mar 2024, 08:02:00 AM IST

India vs England Live Score:  Speaking at the pre-match press conference, Rohit said, “I honestly don't know what [Bazball] means, whether it is to go and strike, whether it is to go and defend and wait for the loose ball…I have not seen any wild swinging from anyone, so I don't know exactly what this term means," he added.

"But, yeah, clearly they have played better cricket from what they played the last time they were here. And you got to give credit to two of their batters who got big hundreds there and played well. They applied their method to get some success and they got it. But other than that I don't know what it means," the Indian skipper added.

07 Mar 2024, 07:51:52 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: Speaking at the ICC Review podcast, Ponting said, “He's a master of spin in any conditions. He's been an incredible cricketer, no doubt about it. I had a chance to coach him for a couple of years at Delhi, and loved working with him. He's got a lot of theories and philosophies on the game, which I really like. He's always done things a little bit differently and done things his own way. But he just continued to evolve as a bowler,"

07 Mar 2024, 07:49:10 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: Speaking at the pre-match press conference, Rohit said, "There was a guy called Rishabh Pant in our team, probably Ben Duckett hasn't seen him play," Hindustan Times quoted Rohit as saying during the press conference.

Earlier, Duckett had suggested that the England team's 'Bazball' style of play should be given credit for encouraging the left-handed Indian opener to play in the way he has batted so far.

"When you see players from the opposition playing like that, it almost feels like we should take some credit that they're playing differently than how other people play Test cricket," Duckett had said.

07 Mar 2024, 07:37:34 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: The live streaming of the India vs England 2024 Test series will be available on the JioCinema app as well as the website. Also, the match can be watched live on Sports18 and Colors Cineplex channels starting from 9:30am today.

07 Mar 2024, 07:26:49 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: The Dharamsala pitch is expected to be batting-friendly for the first two days, but most likely to become favourable to bowlers from Day 2 onwards, hence the team winning the toss may prefer to bat first on this surface

07 Mar 2024, 07:17:18 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: Rohit Sharma (capt), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Ravindra Jadeja, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wk), R Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah

07 Mar 2024, 07:12:41 AM IST

India vs England Live Score: The weather conditions in Dharamshala are set to be “cloudy, rainy and chilly". According to AccuWeather, there is a 94% probability of rain and 15% probability of thunderstorms during day time. The temperature is expected to range between 19 degrees to 12 degrees Celsius and winds are expected to blow at the speed of around 2 km/hr in the east-south-east direction during the day and 6 km/h at night. The possibility of wind gusts with a speed of 11 km/h during the day and 22 km/hr at night cannot be ruled out. There is a 76% probability of cloud cover during the day and 62% during the night.

According to the Indian Meteorological Department, the first two days of the Test match are likely to be marred by rain, but the situation could improve in the last three days.