Earlier, Hardik Pandya played the innings of his life to take India to 168 for 6. And what a stage to do it. A World Cup semi-final with India in trouble and Pandya does what he does best – taking the England attack to the cleaners at the fag end of the innings. His 63 came off 33 balls and it is only his innings that had given India something to bowl at – which otherwise was going nowhere.

Virat Kohli once again held the Indian innings together before he departed for a well-made 50 off 40 balls. The runs were hard to come by as Suryakumar Yadav (14) departed in trying to up the ante. Before that, Chris Jordon ended India captain Rohit Sharma’s (27 off 28) struggle, leaving Buttler mighty pleased with the way his bowlers had kept things quiet in the first half of the match. England had drawn first blood with Chris Woakes getting rid of KL Rahul in the second over of the match.

IND vs ENG Playing 11:

India Playing 11: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant(w), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh

England Playing 11: Jos Buttler(w/c), Alex Hales, Philip Salt, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid

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“The feeling is surreal,” he tweeted along with his photo. In the photo, he is sitting in the pitch at the iconic DY Patil stadium.

The feeling is surreal🇮🇳🧿❤️ pic.twitter.com/RccRbyYpx4

Surya Kumar Yadav (@surya_14kumar) February 21, 2021

SKY – as he is popularly known – has been in the scheme of things for a long time and there were talks that he could make it for the Australia tour – but that did not happen.

Suryakumar amassed 480 runs in 15 outings in the IPL that was played in UAE and was one of the key reasons why defending champions Mumbai Indians went on to win the tournament.

He was not the only uncapped Indian player to be picked for the home series against England. Ishan Kishan – who was the highest run-scorer in IPL among uncapped Indian players – also got his maiden national call. Rahul Tewatia was also picked for the first time in the India squad.

Meanwhile, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rishabh Pant also returned to the white-ball format. For Bhuvi, he is coming back from an injury, while Pant has been drafted back following his splendid show in the longest format.

Squad: Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, Varun Chakravarthy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur

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