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After a huge victory against Bangladesh, India will play in their second match of the tournament against England, who had a tough first encounter against the Netherlands. India will be a confident side after having scored 370 runs in the match with some of the top batsmen firing. However, they will still have wanted to have had bowled better in the match.

England who had to fight for a victory against Netherlands will look to make amends and put up their best against the Indian side whose batsmen could just roll over the opposition bowling.

The match was originally scheduled to be played at Eden Gardens in Kolkata but was later on shifted to the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Considering the slow nature of the pitch a 280+ score should be very competitive.

India Team:
MS Dhoni (captain, wkt), V Sehwag, SR Tendulkar, G Gambhir, V Kohli, YK Pathan, Y Singh, H Singh, Z Khan, S Sreesanth, MM Patel, R Ashwin, PP Chawla, SK Raina, A Nehra.

England Team:
AJ Strauss (captain), KP Pietersen, IJL Trott, IR Bell, PD Collingwood, MJ Prior (wkt), MH Yardy, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad, GP Swann, JM Anderson, RS Bopara, A Shahzad.

Umpires: B Bowden (NZ) and M Erasmus (SA)
Third umpire: R Tucker (Aus)
Match referee: R Mahanama (SL)

Pitch Report:

M. Chinnaswamy stadium has hosted the same combination during 2008 where the home team clinched a 19 run win against England. However, in recent warm up match too India managed a 38 run win over Australia nevertheless the opponent’s skipper stated the pitch as unprepared. It gives us a clue that England too with his pace attack could face the same problem while deploying its pace squad and for a spin attack they have only one spinner Graeme Swann. It could be beneficial for home side.