Recent Match
England tour of India, 2025, 2nd ODI, , Feb 9th, 2025

India

(44.3 ov) 308/6

England

(49.5 ov) 304/10

complete India won by 4 wkts

Player of Match: Rohit Sharma

Shami switches to round the wicket to Duckett
0.1
Shami to Philip Salt, 1 run, full ball swinging towards middle and leg at 134.1kph, Philip Salt flicks it to deep mid-wicket to get off the mark
Philip Salt and Duckett are at the crease. Philip Salt is on strike. Shami will open the attack
The Indian team is in a huddle near the boundary ropes. Out come the players and the umpires to the middle.
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Teams:
England (Playing XI): Philip Salt(w), Ben Duckett, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler(c), Liam Livingstone, Jamie Overton, Gus Atkinson, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Saqib Mahmood
India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Varun Chakravarthy
Rohit Sharma: It was a good performance in the first game. That's what I loved about. The energy was very good despite not being on the field for a while
England have won the toss and have opted to bat
Jos Buttler: We are going to bat first today. We have been pushing in the right direction, play better for longer and hopefully have a good day today.
England have won the toss and have opted to bat
Pitch Report | Deep Dasgupta and Graeme Swann: This is a high-scoring venue. 63 and 64m square boundaries and 73m hit down the ground. I will do a knuckle test first, it’s not hard as the last pitch we played at and it's cracked. While the Sun is out through the day. I think the ball will come on nicely. I feel the pitch is a bit abrasive. It might slow down in the second half of the first innings. You might want to bowl first and there might be a bit of dew in the second half. The pockets at mid-wicket are short so spinners will have their task cut out.
Best bowling average in List A cricket (50+ wickets)
14.13 Varun Chakravarthy *
14.91 Chanuka Dilshan
15.83 Rajendra Dhanraj
16.05 Keith Boyce
16.10 Ali Khan
Varun Chakravarthy is the oldest debutant for India outside of their inaugural match in the ODI format in 1974.

Oldest ODI debutants for India
36y 138d Farookh Engineer vs Eng Leeds 1974
33y 164d Varun Chakravarthy vs Eng Cuttack 2025 *
33y 103d Ajit Wadekar vs Eng Leeds 1974
32y 350d Dilip Doshi vs Aus Melbourne 1980
32y 307d Syed Abid Ali vs Eng Leeds 1974
Just In; Varun CV has just been given his cap.
https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/133365/cuttack-raises-anticipation-of-a-hard-reset
The fact that the Champions Trophy is only a couple of games away for both these sides provides them a chance to play around a bit with their lineups.
Prakash Govindasreenivasan adds: Mark Wood should be in today. He's just marked his run up at both ends.
Here's our correspondent, Prakash Govindasreenivasan, reporting from the venue: Hello from Cuttack! Virat Kohli is fit and good to go for this game. He's was out taking a few throwdowns a little while ago. He had long nets yesterday too, when nearly half the stands were filled.