‘It might be this week in Hyderabad’: Michael Vaughan claims England might give India a shock in 1st Test

The five-match Test sequence between India and England is on the heels of getting commenced in the City of Nawabs, Hyderabad on Thursday, January 25. Numerous stuff has occurred in the build-up to the sequence opener with a participant from each England and India squads withdrawing from the sequence (two matches in Virat Kohli‘s case), India asserting that KL Rahul will be taking part in simply as a batter and England spinner Shoaib Bashir’s visa getting delayed amongst different issues. However, at 9:30 AM IST on Thursday, it should be cricket which is able to take priority over something.

England underneath their new aggressive strategy of taking the sport head on, are touring India for the primary time and captain Ben Stokes admitted that it’ll be a lengthy and hard project however they’re excited. In the final one and a half years, England have made Test cricket thrilling to observe and play however on Indian pitches towards the standard of Indian spinners, it is not going to be straightforward however as Stokes talked about, they want to take this alternative head on.

While Indian skipper Rohit Sharma dismissed the strategy ‘Bazball’ saying they’d prefer to focus extra on themselves and never hassle about how the guests are going to play. However, the previous England captain Michael Vaughan was of the view that the brand new strategy of the Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum facet isn’t straightforward to play towards and the guests may shock the Indian staff in their very own yard in the primary match itself.

“Really looking forward to the #INDvENG test series … India are clear favourites but I think England might give them a shock or 2 … It might be this week in Hyderabad … This New England approach isn’t easy to play against,” Vaughan wrote on X (previously referred to as Twitter). 

England will be with out Harry Brook, one of many pioneers of their Bazball period however that meant a comeback for Ben Foakes immediately into the line-up. India, however, like England too will be taking part in with three spinners.