England Playing XI for 2nd T20I vs India: Change in England's playing-11 for Chennai T20

England Playing XI Announced for 2nd T20I VS India: The second match of the five-match T20 series between India and England will be played on 25 January (Saturday) at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. England has announced its playing-11 for this match. England has made a big change in its team for this match.

Fast bowler entry in England team

Fast bowler Gus Atkinson, who proved to be expensive in the last match, has been dropped from the second T20. In place of Atkinson, right-arm fast bowler Brydon Cars has got a place in the playing-11. 29-year-old Cars has played 5 Tests, 19 ODIs and 4 T20 matches for England so far. During this, he has taken 27 wickets in Tests, 23 in ODIs and 6 in T20 Internationals.

🚨 Team news for tomorrow's second T20I v India

🔁 Brydon Carse comes in for Gus Atkinson

🆕 Jamie Smith has also been added to the 12 player squad pic.twitter.com/Fr4Hju00qs

— England Cricket (@englandcricket) January 24, 2025

Brydon Cars has got a place in the playing-11.

For the second T20, the English team has named wicketkeeper Jamie Smith as the 12th player. Let us tell you that the England team had to face defeat by 7 wickets in the first match of the T20 series. In that match, Gus Atkinson proved to be very expensive and he conceded 38 runs in 2 overs. During this, Sanju Samson gave momentum to the Indian team by scoring 22 runs in his very first over.

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 12th player: Jamie Smith

Indian team for T20 series against England: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel (vice-captain), Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Shami, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper).

England tour of India

First T20- 22 January- Kolkata, India won by 7 wickets Second T20- 25 January- Chennai Third T20- 28 January- Rajkot Fourth T20- 31 January- Pune Fifth T20- 2 February- Mumbai First ODI- 6 February- Nagpur Second ODI- 9 February- Cuttack Third ODI- 12 February- Ahmedabad