India rests Bumrah and been made to bat first by England in 2nd test at Edgbaston

BIRMINGHAM England AP India rested fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah amid three lineup changes against England on Wednesday in its bid to level the test series at Edgbaston Bumrah India s best bowler but on a three-test quota in the five-test series was replaced by Akash Deep who will play his first test this year Batting allrounder Nitish Kumar Reddy replaced bowling allrounder Shardul Thakur who scored only and in the first-test loss in Leeds last week Washington Sundar the off-spin bowling allrounder with wickets and a batting average of in nine tests has also come in to shore up the batting which suffered late-order batting collapses of - and - in Leeds Sai Sudharsan who scored and in his test debut in Leeds was dropped and Karun Nair promoted to No in the order India was made to bat first on a batting-friendly Edgbaston pitch after the toss was won by England which has an unchanged lineup India captain Shubman Gill disclosed he also would have bowled first England s decision means it will chase again in the fourth innings It hunted down in Leeds to win by five wickets and chased down against India on the same ground in India has never beaten England at Edgbaston in eight previous tests going back to Lineups England Zak Crawley Ben Duckett Ollie Pope Joe Root Harry Brook Ben Stokes captain Jamie Smith Chris Woakes Bryson Carse Josh Tongue Shoaib Bashir India Yashasvi Jaiswal Lokesh Rahul Karun Nair Shubman Gill captain Rishabh Pant Nitish Kumar Reddy Ravindra Jadeja Washington Sundar Akash Deep Mohammed Siraj Prasidh Krishna AP cricket https apnews com hub cricket Source