India vs England 2025 2nd Test Match Winning Best Playing 11

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Arshdeep Singh set to play in our India vs England 2025 2nd Test match best possible playing 11 for both teams.

0-1. Yes, that’s a very common sight in Team India’s away tour journey in a Test series. Team India have once again begun an Away Test series tour with a loss against England in the 1st Test match. It was a closely fought battle between both teams, but England were a better team during the five days. It’s still a long Test series with a total of 5 matches to be played, but beginning a tour with a loss will certainly dent the confidence of the Indian team.

However, one can say Team India had a decent start to this tour. It was expected that the batting might not give a strong performance given the lack of experience, but it was the opposite in the 1st Test match. Except for the Tailenders, Team India’s batters put on quite a show with over 800 runs in both innings combined. This was quite a show from the batters, but the bowlers failed to pick 20 wickets, and that is a major worry for the team currently.

Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir and Captain Shubman Gill reiterated in the press conference that picking 20 wickets in the Test match is a priority for them, and with that mindset, there should be changes in the 2nd Test match for Team India. While we don’t expect India to make leaps and bounds changes, there will be one key change, if not two, for the 2nd Test match vs England.

Key Match Details

Tour Details: India Tour of England 2025

Match Details: India vs Eng 2nd Test Match

Where: Birmingham

When: July 2-6, 2025, 3:30 pm IST

India vs Eng 2025 Official Test Squad and Players List for Indian Team

Batters

Abhimanyu Easwaran
KL Rahul
Karun Nair
Sai Sudharsan
Shubman Gill (c)
Yashasvi Jaiswal

Wicket-keepers

Dhruv Jurel
Rishabh Pant (vc)

All-rounders

Nitish Reddy
Ravindra Jadeja
Washington Sundar

Bowlers

Akash Deep
Arshdeep Singh
Harshit Rana
Jasprit Bumrah
Kuldeep Yadav
Mohammed Siraj
Prasidh Krishna
Shardul Thakur

In the first Test match, the pace trio of Shardul Thakur, Prasidh Krishna, and Mohammed Siraj were ineffective in both – taking wickets and containing the runs. With such ineffectiveness, India will have a hard time if the same bowling is repeated. On top of this, Shardul, who was played as a bowling all-rounder, hardly bowled in the match. So, if you are not planning to bowl him, there is no reason why India should play him. India will be better off playing Arshdeep Singh as a Frontline pacer in place of Shardul Thakur for the 2nd Test match.

Aside from this change, India should continue with Siraj and Prasidh by giving them one more opportunity. Both pacers may have been ineffective, but should be given one more opportunity. However, India will be more concerned about Jasprit Bumrah’s availability. Gambhir has said that the Team will take a decision on Bumrah’s availability on the match day itself. Since India got a sufficient gap between the 1st and 2nd Test, Bumrah should ideally play this match.

India vs Eng 2025 2nd Test Best Playing 11

Yashasvi Jaiswal
KL Rahul
Sai Sudharsan
Shubman Gill (c)
Rishabh Pant (wk)
Karun Nair
Ravindra Jadeja
Arshdeep Singh
Jasprit Bumrah
Mohammed Siraj
Prasidh Krishna

India vs Eng 2025 Official 2nd Test Squad and Players List for England

Batters

Ben Ducket
Harry Brook
Joe Root
Ollie Pope
Zak Crawley

Wicket-keepers

Jamie Smith

All-rounders

Ben Stokes
Brydon Carse
Chris Woakes
Jamie Overton
Jacob Bethell

Bowlers

Jofra Archer
Josh Tongue
Shoaib Bashir
Sam Cook

The England team has already announced their playing 11 for the 2nd Test match. As expected, the team has maintained the same playing 11, even though Jofra Archer’s inclusion was expected. However, it seems Jofra Archer is still not fit, and England didn’t want to take a risk on him as they won the first Test match without Archer, too. However, India will need a strong bowling attack to be able to defeat this playing 11.