Former England pacer Stuart Broad hailed an "intense and galvanised" Indian unit for their bowling in the first session of day four of the third Test at Lord's and gave his take on what an ideal target could be for the Three Lions.
After a successful outing with the ball on the opening day of the Lord’s Test, where he got rid of both the English openers, Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley, seam-bowling all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy credited Australia’s captain Pat Cummins and India’s bowling coach Morne Morkel for his success.
South Africa's pace attack will be led by Rabada along with Lungi Ngidi and Marco Jansen, while Australia boast the experienced pace trio of captain Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood.
After the Indian bowlers, led by Yuzvendra Chahal (4-47) bowled out England for 246, Topley made use of the favourable conditions and varied his pace to pick 6-24 in 9.5 overs, the best figures by any England bowler in ODI history as India crashed to 146 all out in 38.5 overs.
With confidence high after a comprehensive show at The Oval, India will be targeting to seal the series quickly in the second ODI at Lord's on Thursday, just like what they did in the preceding T20I series, which they eventually won 2-1.
India lost that second Test by innings and 285 runs
It is also expected that secretary Jay Shah, vice-president Rajiv Shukla, treasurer Arun Dhumal might be in the UK to watch the Indian team
While Sourav Ganguly went on to score a 100, Rahul Dravid was not so lucky and got out just 5 runs short of the landmark in his debut Test at Lord's in 1996.
Ganguly picked the hundred which he scored on his Test debut at Lord's as the best moment of his career.
Hussain rated Kaif's innings at Lord's as the best he ever played in International cricket.
