India vs England Playing XI: The five -Test series will begin in Leeds on 20 June between India and England. Team India will also launch its campaign in the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025-27 cycle from this series. The team is doing the management to choose the playing-11 for the first Test to be held in Leeds. All -rounder Shardul Thakur has also contested his claim just before the match.

Strong bowling line-up washed

Shardul played an unbeaten 122 run in an unbeaten 122 runs in the recent intra-squad match. He scored this century in front of a strong bowling attack like Jaspreet Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, famous Krishna and Mohammad Siraj. With this, he influenced everyone with his batting capacity. Shardul and Nitish Kumar Reddy are expected to compete between Shardul and Nitish Kumar Reddy for the all -rounder location in the playing XI. In such a situation, this innings was very important for Shardul. He last played a Test match for India in 2023.

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Nitish Kumar Reddy not in good form

If Shardul plays in the leads, Nitish will have to sit outside. He scored a memorable century in Melbourne on a tour of Australia. After that, their discussion started happening everywhere. However, there has been a decline in his form for some time. He could not do anything special for India A against England Lions. He scored 7, 51*, 34 and 42 in four innings.

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Shardul has played in England

Talking about Shardul, he has experience of playing in England. The 33-year-old all-rounder has played 11 Test matches for India so far and during this time, along with scoring 331 runs, he has also taken 31 wickets. He has played three Test matches in England and has taken 8 wickets during this period. Talking about batting, 122 runs have been scored in 5 innings. He has also scored two half -centuries.