Woakes to Jaiswal, no run, length delivery slanting across outside off, left alone

Woakes to Jaiswal, no run, full and straight on middle, hint of shape

Jaiswal and Rahul are at the crease. Jaiswal is on strike. Woakes will open the attack

We're nearly set for live action. Jaiswal to take strike, Woakes with the new ball, four slips in place. HERE WE GO!

The players and umpires are out there for the national anthems.

"Sun is properly beating down but if you look at the local forecast, rain clouds are moving towards and could hit tomorrow afternoon, around Lunch time. But that's for later, right now, not a cloud in the sky" says Kaushik.

Pitch report: Tinge of green, 9mm of grass, the county games here have been around 12 so it nipped around a little bit. Leeds here you talk about blue skies and the clouds. It's looking at the clouds and hoping there will be swing. But with blue skies I think there will slightly less than that. Day 1 at Leeds you always get a bit of seam movement or a bit of something in the pitch. I think it will carry through nicely for the first couple of days and with the forecast set so beautifully has to dry out has to crack up and maybe a bit of spin later in the game. Already there are a couple of cracks and I think they will open up but I feel it can still be a decent day and decent seam movement for the pacers today. You have to be fuller here. You have to risk a drive. There is nothing for short, being cut and pull. You have to make batters hit down the ground. You need to have 3-4 slips for majority of the day. You can get reverse swing because of the dryness but you have to make the new ball count - opines Stuart Broad.

Most Tests missed between two appearances for India
118 Jaidev Unadkat (2010-22)
87 Dinesh Karthik (2010-18)
83 Parthiv Patel (2008-16)
77 Karun Nair (2017-25) *
56 Abhinav Mukund (2011-17)

The last six Tests at Headingley, dating back to 2017, were all won by the sides batting second - two by an innings margin and four by chasing down targets in excess of 250.

Here's Deepu with an interesting stat: Sai Sudharshan makes his Test debut with a first class average of 39.93. The last Indian top order batter to have a sub-40 first class average at the time of Test debut was Wookeri Raman, against West Indies in Chennai in 1987/88.

Teams:

India (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Karun Nair, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna

England (Playing XI): Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes(c), Jamie Smith(w), Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Josh Tongue, Shoaib Bashir

Shubman Gill: Would've bowled first as well, might be a bit tough in the first session but it should be good to bat on later. Sun is out, should be a good batting deck for us. Preperation has been amazing, we played a practice game in Beckenham, lads are feeling great. Sai makes his debut, Karun comes in. Sai will bat at three.

Ben Stokes: We'll bowl. Headingley is a very good cricket wicket, we've had some really good games here. Want to try and use the early conditions.

England have won the toss and have opted to field

It's toss time! Ravi Shastri out there as usual along with Stokes and Gill.

Here's Kaushik with another interesting observation, "At the far end of the ground, we have the slip cordon in practice again

Keshav: I think the score line will be 3-1 in favor of England, pertaining inexperience batting lineup of India. As seen in the case of SENA countries, bowlers will take 20 wickets but batting should come to shore in order to win the series.

Sunit Sihag: India will win the first match at Headingley, scoreline at the end of this series will be 3-1 in favor of India. And if that happens, Gill will establish himself as new generation star and silence all his critics.