England vs India, 2nd Test at Birmingham, ENG vs IND, Jul 02 2025 - Playing XI

RESULT

2nd Test, Birmingham, July 02 - 06, 2025, India tour of England

587 & 427/6d

(T:608) 407 & 271

India won by 336 runs

Player Of The Match

, IND

269 & 161

	England	India
1	Zak Crawley top-order batter	Yashasvi Jaiswal opening batter
2	Ben Duckett top-order batter	KL Rahul wicketkeeper batter
3	Ollie Pope middle-order batter	Karun Nair top-order batter
4	Joe Root top-order batter	Shubman Gill (c) middle-order batter
5	Harry Brook batter	Rishabh Pant † wicketkeeper batter
6	Ben Stokes (c) allrounder	Nitish Kumar Reddy batting allrounder
7	Jamie Smith † wicketkeeper batter	Ravindra Jadeja allrounder
8	Chris Woakes allrounder	Washington Sundar bowling allrounder
9	Brydon Carse bowling allrounder	Akash Deep bowler
10	Josh Tongue bowler	Mohammed Siraj bowler
11	Shoaib Bashir bowler	Prasidh Krishna bowler
Bench
12	Jofra Archer bowler	Arshdeep Singh bowler
13	Jacob Bethell batting allrounder	Jasprit Bumrah bowler
14	Sam Cook bowler	Abhimanyu Easwaran top-order batter
15	Jamie Overton bowling allrounder	Narayan Jagadeesan † wicketkeeper batter
16	-	Dhruv Jurel † wicketkeeper batter
17	-	Anshul Kamboj bowler
18	-	Kuldeep Yadav bowler
19	-	Sai Sudharsan top-order batter
20	-	Shardul Thakur bowler

Language

English

Match Coverage

Holy mackerel Batman, what did we just watch?

Full-on and full-scale, England vs India was a series so packed with events and excitement that you'll struggle to remember more than a handful looking back

Holy mackerel Batman, what did we just watch?

Brook displaces Root to be No. 1 Test batter, Gill moves up to No. 6

Wiaan Mulder, who got a mammoth 367* against Zimbabwe, gained in both batters' and allrounders' rankings

Brook displaces Root to be No. 1 Test batter, Gill moves up to No. 6

Rock and Roll It podcast: How India brushed aside Bazball

Sidharth Monga and Karthik Krishnaswamy look back on all the major talking points coming out of India's epic win in Birmingham

Rock and Roll It podcast: How India brushed aside Bazball

Switch Hit: Breaking Baz

India hit back to level the series at Edgbaston. Alan Gardner hears from Andrew Miller and Sid Monga about where the second Test was won and lost

Switch Hit: Breaking Baz

From grief to glory - Akash Deep's spell of a lifetime

Bowling through heartbreak and hardship, he rose from life's roughest pitches to script a spell of unforgettable highs

From grief to glory - Akash Deep's spell of a lifetime

Instant answers to T20 questions

Videos

All Match Videos

Tendulkar: Akash Deep to Root at Edgbaston was 'ball of the series'

Tendulkar: Akash Deep to Root at Edgbaston was 'ball of the series'

Monga: Gill set the example for India's batting success at Edgbaston

Monga: Gill set the example for India's batting success at Edgbaston