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.
Despite getting off to a good start, India lost their way in the middle and were 146/5 when both Kaif and Yuvraj got together in the middle. The rest, as they say, is history.
Rahane's 103 off 154 balls came at a time in the Test match when his teammates were struggling to keep up with the England pacers led by James Anderson.
Ganguly is in the United Kingdom for a meeting with officials of England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
The first Test will be played at Lord's while the second will take place in Manchester (from August 7) with the final game being hosted at Trent Bridge from August 20.
Australian captain Tim Paine said that it is still too early to tell if Smith can take part in the third Test at Headingley that starts on Thursday.
