After a T20I whitewash, India get a clean slate in the ODIs at Edgbaston
India’s white-ball tour of England moves to the 50-over game at Edgbaston on Tuesday, with Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah back in the mix after a 4-0 T20I hiding.
Jul 13, 2026
India could not have picked a better moment to change formats. Their white-ball tour of England has been a chastening one so far, and the switch to 50-over cricket at Edgbaston on Tuesday gives Shubman Gill’s side a fresh scoreboard after a T20I series that ran away from them.
That series ended 4-0. England finished it off in Southampton with Jos Buttler hitting 131 and Harry Brook an unbeaten 95, and the defeat cost India their No. 1 ranking in the format. Shreyas Iyer, leading the T20I side, ended the leg with an unwanted record and a lot of questions about India’s death bowling and their top order under pressure.
Familiar names back in the mix
The ODIs bring reinforcements. Rohit Sharma returns to open, Virat Kohli is back in the squad, though his involvement depends on fitness, and Jasprit Bumrah is available again having sat out the recent home series against Afghanistan. For a batting group that looked short of senior ballast in the T20Is, having Rohit and Kohli back around Gill and Iyer changes the feel of the dressing room as much as the team sheet.
Gill keeps the captaincy for the 50-over leg with Iyer as his deputy, so there is at least some continuity at the top even as the personnel shift. The harder puzzle is the bowling. India lost the seamer Harshit Rana to a hamstring injury during the T20Is and called up Prince Yadav in his place, while the spinner Varun Chakravarthy is nursing a hamstring problem of his own. Hardik Pandya’s absence adds to that, leaving India shorter of seam-bowling all-round options than they would like on English pitches.
England in no mood to let up
England, for their part, have no reason to change much. Harry Brook leads an ODI side with Buttler, Joe Root and Ben Duckett around him, and after the way the T20Is went, the hosts will fancy carrying that momentum into the longer white-ball game. Root gives their innings the anchor that a 50-over chase or defence often turns on, which is a different challenge to the flat-out hitting that hurt India across the T20I series.
The series runs to three matches, with Sophia Gardens in Cardiff up next on July 16 and the finale at Lord’s on July 19. India do not have long to find their feet, but the format at least plays to more of their strengths. A first-innings platform from Rohit and Gill, and a disciplined middle spell rather than a T20 shootout, is the version of this India that England have found harder to beat.