​India bring their white-ball tour of England to a close with a three-match ODI series that carries far more weight than a routine bilateral. After a 4-0 whitewash in the T20Is cost them the No. 1 ranking and left a squad in transition scrambling to salvage something from a bruising trip, the fifty-over leg promises a different kind of test. Shubman Gill steps up to lead a side reinforced by Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Jasprit Bumrah, restoring the depth of experience and pedigree that the younger T20I group clearly lacked in English conditions.
England, for their part, arrive brimming with confidence under Harry Brook, whose side swept India in five T20Is and rose to the top of the ICC rankings. They will head into this ODI series aiming for a clean sweep of the tour.
With the 2027 ODI World Cup in South Africa on the horizon, both teams will treat these three matches as a genuine audition rather than an afterthought. Here is everything you need to know about the series.
The three-match series begins on Tuesday, July 14, at Edgbaston in Birmingham, and concludes at Lord’s on Sunday, July 19, bringing the curtain down on a white-ball tour that started in Durham on July 1.
Both sides come into the series in strong ODI form. India thrashed Afghanistan 3-0 at home in their most recent fifty-overs assignment, while England recovered from an opening defeat to beat Sri Lanka 2-1 in January.
Date, Match, Venue, BST/IST:
– Tue, Jul 14 — 1st ODI — Edgbaston, Birmingham — 1:00 PM BST / 5:30 PM IST
– Thu, Jul 16 — 2nd ODI — Sophia Gardens, Cardiff — 1:00 PM BST / 5:30 PM IST
– Sun, Jul 19 — 3rd ODI — Lord’s, London — 11:00 AM BST / 3:30 PM IST
The BCCI named Gill captain with Shreyas Iyer as his deputy, marking a clear shift from the T20I squad. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli return, though Kohli’s participation remains contingent on a fitness clearance from the BCCI medical team.
India have been forced into several late changes. The BCCI confirmed Prince Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi as replacements for injured Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarthy, while Shivam Dube came in for Nitish Kumar Reddy, who suffered a left quadriceps injury.
England named a 16-player squad through the ECB, including uncapped Sussex all-rounder James Coles and Josh Tongue, who is yet to make his ODI debut. Gus Atkinson and Saqib Mahmood return to bolster the pace attack. Zak Crawley, Brydon Carse, Jamie Overton, and Luke Wood were notable omissions from Brook’s squad, which retains a strong core of Jos Buttler, Joe Root, Adil Rashid, Jofra Archer, and Sam Curran.
India ODI squad: Shubman Gill (c), Shreyas Iyer (vc), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, Arshdeep Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Prince Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi.