Toss England chose to bat vs India will bat first against in the third and decisive ODI at Lord's.Home skipper , who won the toss, was matter-of-fact in his assessment that this was "a good surface" on which England could score big and put India under pressure. It was only last month that Lord's was reprimanded by the ICC for an "unsatisfactory" surface for the first New Zealand Test.Both teams have made changes ahead of this winner-takes-all encounter. England made just the one with Saqib Mahmood sitting out after playing the second ODI. who made his debut in the format in the first match at Edgbaston, replaced him.India, however, have gone with three alterations. Two have been enforced, with captain revealing that was out after damaging his left knee, which swelled up after an impact injury sustained in the field at Cardiff. , also through injury, after damaging his hamstring in that second ODI. Shivam Dube also missed out on tactical grounds.
returns after missing the last match through illness, with and making up the XI. "We were looking to play four seamers at this ground," Gill said, adding that he would have batted first. " We saw spinners don't offer as much through the middle overs as the seamers. " For India, this match could mark the end of an era. Reports emerged during the second ODI that this may be Rohit Sharma's final international appearance.
England: 1 Ben Duckett, 2 Jacob Bethell, 3 Joe Root, 4 Harry Brook (capt), 5 Jos Buttler (wk), 6 Sam Curran, 7 Will Jacks, 8 Gus Atkinson, 9 Jofra Archer, 10 Josh Tongue, 11 Adil RashidIndia: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill (capt), 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 Ishan Kishan (wk), 6 KL Rahul, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Gurnoor Brar, 9 Prince Yadav, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Prasidh Krishna
