India have handed a Test debut to Sai Sudharsan.
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England won the toss and put India into bat first in opening Test match of the Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy at Leeds on Friday.
India have handed a Test debut to left-handed batter Sai Sudharsan, who is slated to bat at No.3, while all-rounder Shardul Thakur and batter Karun Nair return to the playing 11.
For the records, only three Indian teams -- Ajit Wadekar's batch of 1971, Kapil's Devils in 1986 and Rahul Dravid's sprightly bunch in 2007 -- have won a Test series in Old Blighty in the past nine decades.
Teams:
India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, B Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill (c), Rishabh Pant (wk), Karun Nair, Shardul Thakur, Ravindra Jadeja, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah.
England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Josh Tongue, Shoaib Bashir.
(With PTI inputs)