All-England Badminton: Lakshya Sen goes down fighting to Jonatan Christie in semis
The Indonesian star however maintained the upper hand and went on to win the first game 21-12, converting the lone game point she earned.
The Indonesian star however maintained the upper hand and went on to win the first game 21-12, converting the lone game point she earned.
There are chances of precipitation on the first two days of the match, and the maximum temperature is expected to hover around 10 degrees before rising over the weekend. Both teams have used different lenses of judging the pitch.
Many former cricketers have raised questions on the decision but Munaf Patel feels if management has taken decided there shouldn't be any "ifs and buts."
The visitors have made two changes: speed bowler Ollie Robinson has replaced Mark Wood, and spinner Sohaib Bashir has taken the place of Rehan Ahmed.
England captain Ben Stokes has hinted he may make a return to bowling duties for the remainder of the series in India as the 32-year-old said "he managed to bowl at 100 percent in one of the warm-up days."
England’s ‘Bazball’ approach might have worked well for them as a unit and yielded the desired results under captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum.
While batting coach Vikram Rathour, and earlier Dravid have backed the under-fire batters in Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer to get going, the two right-handers will have to rise to the occasion in the absence of Rahul, Kohli and Jadeja.
England have suffered a major injury blow as experienced left-arm spinner Jack Leach will miss the second Test against India due to injury.
Off-spinner Bashir joined the squad on the penultimate day of the Hyderabad Test that the English team went on to win by 28 runs, thanks to a brilliant seven-wicket burst from debutant left-arm spinner Tom Hartley.
The Super Six will involve the top three sides from each of the four round-robin groups, with teams progressing from Groups A and D comprising one Group, and those from B and C the other.