ENG vs IND Match Preview
England will take on India in the 5th test starting on 31st July at the Oval Cricket Ground in London. With the series currently poised at England 2‑1, and the fourth Test ending in a dramatic draw at Old Trafford, this final match in London promises to be high on drama and stakes.
A win for India levels the series; a home victory would crown England champions. Rishabh Pant is ruled out with a fractured foot, and Narayan Jagadeesan has replaced him in the squad. India will make some changes. Kuldeep Yadav could return, and Arshdeep Singh may be handed a debut, and Bumrah will not play in this match.
England will also make some changes, especially to their bowling unit, which is fatigued after a long spell in the last game. The top 7 will be retained, and we can see the rest and the rotation of a few fast bowlers. A congested schedule of five Tests in less than seven weeks has proved gruelling, especially for the fast bowlers from both teams, with every match going the distance so far.
Remarkably, India can still end the series all square at 2-2 after salvaging an unlikely draw in the fourth Test at Old Trafford. This promises to be a thrilling match between these two sides.
Westher Forecast
Day 1 – Rain – 22°C
Day 2 – Light Rain – 19°C
Day 3 – Partly Cloudy – 21°C
Day 4 – Light Rain – 22°C
Day 5 – Mostly Cloudy – 22°C
ENG vs IND Venue & Pitch Report
| Venue | The Oval, London |
| Date & Time | July 31, 2025 3:30PM (IST) |
| Live Broadcast and Streaming Details | JioHotstar & Sony Sport Network |
Pitch Info
Total Matches – Tests
Overall – 112
Avg 1st Innings – 338
Avg 2nd Innings – 300
Avg 3rd Innings – 237
Avg 4th Innings – 156
Highest total – 903/7 (England vs Australia – 28th November’1938)
Times won Batting First – 42
Times won Batting Second – 30
Times Drawn – 40
Performance of both teams on this ground
ENG – 106 – 45w/26l/37d
IND – 15 – 2w/6l/7d
Top Performers on this venue from the current squads – Tests
ENG
Joe Root – 10th highest run scorer (793), Avg (41.73) – 11M/20I
Ollie Pope – 58th highest run scorer (322), Avg (64.40) – 3M/6I
Chris Woakes – 16th highest wicket taker (26), SR (48.9) – 7M/13I
IND
KL Rahul – 82nd highest run scorer (249), Avg (62.25) – 2M/4I
Ravindra Jadeja – 41st highest wicket taker (15), SR (66) – 3M/6I
Recent Matches on this venue – First Class
1) Surrey vs Durham – 29th June-2nd July’2025
820/9d vs 362 & 262/0 (Match Drawn)
Pacers – 5w+8w+0w+0w=13w
Spinners – 4w+2w+0w+0w=6w
2) Essex vs Sureey – 23rd-26th May’2025
217 & 479 vs 279 & 289/7 (Match Drawn)
Pacers – 10w+8w+9w+5w=32w
Spinners – 0w+2w+0w+2w=4w
3) Yorkshire vs Surrey – 16th-19th May’2025
255 & 229 vs 512 (SUR won by an Innings and 28 runs)
Pacers – 8w+9w+9w+0w=26w
Spinners – 2w+1w+1w+0w=4w
4) Somerset vs Surrey – 25th-27th April’2025
283 & 119 vs 367 & 36/2 (SUR won by 8 wkts)
Pacers – 9w+9w+8w+2w=28w
Spinners – 1w+1w+1w+0w=3w
5) Surrey vs Hampshire – 11th-14th April’2025
253 & 342/9d vs 219 & 300/5 (Match Drawn)
Pacers – 8w+8w+8w+5w=29w
Spinners – 2w+2w+1w+0w=5w
SUMMARY
Pacers
1st Innings – 68w
2nd Innings – 65w
3rd Innings – 64w
4th Innings – 14w
Spinners
1st Innings – 11w
2nd Innings – 13w
3rd Innings – 3w
4th Innings – 2w
Overall
211w:29w (Pacers:Spinners)
Eng vs Ind Head To Head Record in Test
| Matches Played | 134 |
| Won By india | 33 |
| Won By england | 51 |
| Drawn | 50 |
Last 5 Matches
5 – 2w/2l/1d (Tied)
On This Venue
14 – 5w/2l/7d (In favor of ENG)
Top Performers from current squads when both these teams have met each other – Tests
ENG
Joe Root – Highest run scorer (3249), Avg (59.07) – 34M/62I
Ollie Pope – 41st highest run scorer (872), Avg (27.25) – 17M/32I
Zak Crawley – 52nd highest run scorer (774), Avg (30.96) – 13M/25I
Ben Duckett – 59th highest run scorer (726), Avg (36.30) – 11M/20I
Jamie Smith – 94th highest run scorer (424), Avg (84.80) – 4M/7I
Chris Woakes – 32nd highest wicket taker (33), SR (76.3) – 13M/25I
Joe Root – 60th highest wicket taker (21), SR (80.9) – 34M/37I
IND
Ravindra Jadeja – 12th highest run scorer (1485), Avg (42.42) – 24M/41I
KL Rahul – 13th highest run scorer (1466), Avg (45.81) – 17M/32I
Shubman Gill – 18th highest run scorer (1314), Avg (54.75) – 14M/26I
Yashasvi Jaiswal – 33rd highest run scorer (1003), Avg (62.68) – 9M/17I
Karun Nair – 91st highest run scorer (451), Avg (56.37) – 6M/9I
Ravindra Jadeja – 7th highest wicket taker (77), SR (79.4) – 24M/44I
Jasprit Bumrah – 8th highest wicket taker (74), SR (47.9) – 17M/31I
Mohammed Siraj – 24th highest wicket taker (41), SR (56.4) – 15M/28I
Kuldeep Yadav – 60th highest wicket taker (21), SR (38.7) – 6M/11I
Akash Deep – 85th highest wicket taker (14), SR (39) – 3M/5I
Recent Head to Head Matches
1) India vs England – 23rd-27th July’2025
358 & 425/4 vs 669 (Match Drawn)
B Sai Sudharsan – 61(151)
Yashasvi Jaiswal – 58(107)
KL Rahul – 46(98)
Shardul Thakur – 41(88)
Washington Sundar – 27(90) & 2w
Ravindra Jadeja – 20(40) & 4w
Jasprit Bumrah – 2w
Mohammed Siraj – 1w
Anshul Kamboj – 1w
Joe Root – 150(248)
Ben Duckett – 94(100)
Zak Crawley – 84(133)
Ollie Pope – 71(128)
Chris Woakes – 1w
Ravindra Jadeja – 107(185)*
Shubman Gill – 103(238)
Washington Sundar – 101(206)*
KL Rahul – 90(230)
Chris Woakes – 2w
2) England vs India – 10th-14th July’2025
387 & 192 vs 387 & 170 (ENG won by 22 runs)
Joe Root – 104(199)
Jamie Smith – 51(56)
Ollie Pope – 44(104)
Chris Woakes – 3w
KL Rahul – 100(177)
Ravindra Jadeja – 72(131) & 1w
Karun Nair – 40(62)
Jasprit Bumrah – 5w
Mohammed Siraj – 2w
Joe Root – 40(96)
Chris Woakes – 1w
Ravindra Jadeja – 61(181)*
KL Rahul – 39(58)
Washington Sundar – 4w
Jasprit Bumrah – 2w
Mohammed Siraj – 2w
SQUAD INFO WITH DETAILING
A) ENGLAND (ENG) SQUAD:
Playing XI (Announced)
1) Ben Duckett – LHB, WK
Last 10 – 94, 12, 23, 25, 0, 149, 62, 84, 30, 1, 58, 0
2) Zak Crawley – RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 – 84, 22, 18, 0, 19, 65, 4, 75*, 46, 57, 37, 124, 6
3) Ollie Pope (C) – RHB, WK
Last 10 – 71, 4, 44, 24, 0, 8, 106, 53, 11, 9, 5, 171, 1
4) Joe Root – RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 – 0w, 150r 0w, 40r 0w, 104r 0w, 6r 1w, 22r 1w, 53r 0w, 28, 44, 166*, 57, 34, 1
5) Harry Brook – RHB, RM
Last 10 – 3, 23, 11, 23, 158r 0w, 0, 99, 35*, 34, 6, 26*, 47
6) Jacob Bethell – LHB, LAO
Last 10 – 36r 1w, 26r 1w, 23r 2w, 0w, 17r 1w, 82r 1w, 55, 12, 51r 1w, 10
7) Jamie Smith – RHB, WK
Last 10 – 9, 8, 51, 88, 184*, 44*, 40, 60, 4, 38, 64, 0, 37
8) Chris Woakes – RHB, RFM
Last 10 – 2w, 4r 1w, 10r 1w, 0r 3w, 7r 0w, 5r 2w, 1w, 38r 0w, 3w, 5r 2w, 8r 3w, 42r 3w, 1r 1w, 5r 0w
9) Jamie Overton – RHB, RFM
Last 10 – 1r 3w, 0r 2w, 47r 0w, 4r 0w, 0w, 11r 0w, 11r 0w, 32r 1w, 6r 2w, 1r 1w, 19r 2w
10) Josh Tongue – RHB, RFM
Last 10 – 2w, 2w, 3w, 11r 4w, 2w, 36r 0w, 1w, 1w, 39r 5w, 1w, 0w, 2w, 55r 2w, 5w, 8r 0w
11) Gus Atkinson – RHB, RFM
Last 10 – 2w, 1w, 25r 2w, 0w, 4r 4w, 0w, 38r 1w, 3r 1w, 2r 0w, 4r 3w, 43r 1w, 4r 4w, 1w, 48r 2w, 1w, 5r 3w, 4r 0w
BENCH
12) Liam Dawson – RHB, LAO
Last 10 – 0w, 26r 1w, 0w, 2w, 6r 0w, 1w, 7r 2w, 27r 1w, 60*, 139r 1w, 4w, 6r 1w, 12r 1w
13) Brydon Carse – RHB, RFM
Last 10 – 0w, 47r 0w, 1r 2w, 56r 1w, 38r 1w, 0r 2w, 3w, 22r 1w, 1w, 6r 1w, 0w, 2w
14) Jofra Archer – RHB, RF
Last 10 – 1w, 3w, 5r 3w, 2w, 31r 1w, 12r 1w, 30r 0w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 2w
Safe C/VC Choices
Joe Root, Gus Atkinson
B) INDIA (IND) SQUAD:
OUT – Nitish Kumar Reddy (Injury), Rishabh Pant (Injury)
Injury – Arshdeep Singh, Akash Deep
IN – Anshul Kamboj, Narayan Jagadeesan
Probable XI
1) Yashasvi Jaiswal – LHB, Legbreak
Last 10 – 0, 58, 0, 13, 28, 87, 4, 101, 17, 5, 24, 64, 36
2) KL Rahul – RHB, WK
Last 10 – 90, 46, 39, 100, 55, 2, 137, 42, 116, 51, 35, 11
3) B Sai Sudharsan – LHB, Legbreak
Last 10 – 0, 61, 30, 0, 80, 41, 21, 108*, 5, 48, 39, 52
4) Shubman Gill (C) – RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 – 103, 12, 6, 16, 161, 269, 8, 147, 1, 13, 34, 93*, 43
5) Washington Sundar – LHB, Offbreak
Last 10 – 101*, 27r 2w, 0r 4w, 23r 0w, 12r 1w, 42r 0w, 48r 0w, 21r 0w, 13r 0w, 1w, 2r 1w, 49
6) Ravindra Jadeja – LHB, LAO
Last 10 – 107*, 20r 4w, 61r 0w, 72r 1w, 69r 1w, 89r 0w, 25r 1w, 11r 0w, 21r 2w, 1r 0w, 19r 1w, 77r 0w
7) Dhruv Jurel – RHB, WK
Last 10 – 52, 28, 94, 53*, 31*, 53, 0, 11, 47, 6*, 26
8) Shardul Thakur – RHB, RFM
Last 10 – 41r 0w, 4r 2w, 1r 0w, 19r 0w, 34, 27r 2w, 4r 1w, 0w, 1w, 6r 0w, 2w, 2w
9) Kuldeep Yadav – LHB, LWS
Last 10 – 2w, 7r 1w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 2w
10) Arshdeep Singh – LHB, LFM
Last 10 – 3w, 0w, 0w, 2w, 0w, 0w, 3w, 2w, 1w
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Akash Deep/Prasidh Krishna
11) Mohammed Siraj – RHB, RF
Last 10 – 1w, 4r 2w, 2w, 1w, 6w, 0w, 2w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 1w
BENCH
12) Jasprit Bumrah – RHB, RF
Last 10 – 2w, 5r 2w, 5w, 0w, 5w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 3w, 2w, 2w
13) Abhimanyu Easwaran – RHB
Last 10 – 11, 90, 8, 68, 10, 0, 17, 7, 12, 5, 127*, 191, 116, 19, 157*, 13, 4
14) Prasidh Krishna – RHB, RF
Last 10 – 1w, 0w, 2w, 3w, 2w, 2w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 2w
15) Karun Nair – RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 – 14, 40, 26, 31, 20, 0, 40, 15, 204r 1w, 44, 0, 15, 4
16) Anshul Kamboj – RHB, RFM
Last 10 – 0r 1w, 2r 2w, 51r 2w, 23r 1w, 3w, 5r 1w, 4r 1w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 1w
17) Narayan Jagadeesan – RHB, WK
Last 10 – 81, 2, 18, 5*, 50, 11, 13, 22, 18
18) Akash Deep – RHB, RF
Last 10 – 1r 1w, 7r 0w, 6w, 4w, 0w, 6r 0w, 0w, 0w, 2w, 1w, 2w, 7r 0w, 31r 1w
ENG vs IND – Playing XIs
England’s Playing XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope (c), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jacob Bethell, Jamie Smith (wk), Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Jamie Overton, Josh Tongue
India Probable Playing XI – Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill (C), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj.
Players to Perform Prediction
IND– yasasvi jaiswal, kl rahul, shubman gill, ravindra jadeja, arshdeep singh
ENG– ben ducket, joe root, Jamie Overton , Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson
Best Batsman Prediction
Who will score the most runs for IND in the match: Shubman Gill or Jaiswal
Who will score the most runs for ENG in the match: Joe Root or Jemmie smith
Best Bowler Prediction
Who will pick the most wickets for IND in the match: Arshdeep or Jadeja
Who will pick the most wickets for ENG in the match: Gus Atkinson or Chris Woakes
DREAM11 TEAM
Safe C/VC Choices
Ravindra Jadeja, KL Rahul
Differential GL C/VC choices
ENG – Jamie Smith, Ben Duckett, Joe root
IND – Shubman Gill, Washington Sundar, Yashasvi Jaiswal
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