India have lost three T20 games, all in bilateral series, between the
two sides. They had lost bilateral matches played at Lord's in June 2009
and the next two held at Manchester and Kolkata in August and October
last year.
England have included T20 specialists like Alex Hales, Jos Butler, Jade Dernbach, James Tredwell, Michael Lumb, Luke Wright and Danny Briggs – some of who have been part of the development squad which played a few matches in Navi Mumbai when the Test matches were on.
Bresnan and Patel also had the opportunity to play in two and three Tests while Morgan and Bairstow did not.
Retained from the Test squad along with captain Morgan are Tim Bresnan, wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow, Samit Patel and Joe Root, who made an impressive Test debut in the final match.
The game here would be the first T20 International played at the swanky Sahara Stadium on the city's outskirts which hosted IPL matches last year. It has a capacity of 43,000.
Team Squad :
- India: Mahendra Sing Dhoni (captain), Gautam Gambhir, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Piyush Chawla, Ashok Dinda, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun and Parvinder Awana.
- England: Eoin Morgan (captain), James Harris, Jonny Bairstow, Tim Bresnan, Danny Briggs, Jos Butler, Jade Dernbach, Alex Hales, Michael Lumb, Stuart Meaker, Samit Patel, Joe Root, James Tredwell and Luke Wright.
Third Umpire: Vineet Kulkarni
Fourth Umpire: N K Srinath
Match Referee: Jeff Crowe.
Match starts at 7 pm (IST).
