England includes new faces against India, Pietersen rested

The England cricket board has recently announced a 13-man squad for the only T20 match against India at Old Trafford on August 31 and a 14-man squad for the ODI series  beginning from Spetember 3, on Friday.

In the meantime, the star player of the England team, Kevin Pietersen has been rested, Durham's Ben Stokes has been brought in after he made his debut against Ireland on Thursday. The team for the T20 has two uncapped players in Somerset's Jos Buttler and Nottinghamshire's Alex Hales.

India sets 340 runs target against England

As per the latest reports from eh ICC Cricket World Cup, India has managed to make 339 runs all out from their fixed 50 over of the play.

However, all the Indian was got out on 49.5 overs, but still some really very nice batting show has been set by the little master, Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir also hit half century in today’s game.

Earlier, the Indian captain, MS Dhoni, won the toss and elected to bat first against the England at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore today.

Batting first, India off to a good start with Sehwag played some beautiful short all over the ground. But he did not last long at the middle, and fell at 35 runs from just 26 balls he faced.

Then, commend was taken by the little master, Sachin played his natural game today, and once again he showed that he is the best. Sachin hit 120 runs of just115 balls with the help of ten fours and 5 huge sixes.

He was nicely helped by G Gabhir (51 off 61 balls with 5x4) and Yuvraj Singh (58 off 50 balls with 9x4).

From the English team, the best bowling fuigures was taken by TT Bresne, he took 5/45 in his ten over.

MS Dhoni ready for the Big Fight against England

The latest news from the ICC Cricket World Cup matches, MS Dhoni, the captain of India team, said that we are ready to go out to play big innings against England at Bangalore today.

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While talking to media, “It is going to be a crucial game for both the sides. We are going all out to maintain the winning momentum that started against Bangladesh in Mirpur last week.”

Further talking to media, the Indian captain reveals that there is no injury issue with Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh, and they are fully fit to play the match today.

The Indian captain was at a pre-match media talks, “Except Ashish (Nehra), all other players are fully fit and will play to their potential. As every one-day game is new, we have to start in a big way whether batting or bowling and execute our plans accordingly to win.”

While answering to a question about England’s batting specilits, Kevin Pieterson, Dhoni said he is the man who can take the game away from any situation, and we are ready take charge of him soon in the innings.

He said, “Individuals do matter, but our approach will be against the entire team. We will adopt strategies as the game progresses to gain advantage. It is also an advantage to play in front of your own fans as their encouragement and support would help us in g our best.”