M S Dhoni chose to bat in the second international match at the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium at Kochi. Kochi is the largest cricket venue in India. Approximately 70,000 spectators expected, so it is bound to get a bit noisy here.

India have made one change from the playing 11 bringing in Shami Ahmed for Ashok Dinda.

England also made one change bringing in Chris Woakes for Tim Bresnan.

{niftybox width=550px,background=ivory,textcolor=maroon,float=center,textalign=justify,border=gold,font=Arial,fontsize=12px}

India:
1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Ajinkya Rahane, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Shami Ahmed.

England:
1 Alastair Cook (capt), 2 Ian Bell, 3 Kevin Pietersen, 4 Joe Root, 5 Eoin Morgan, 6 Craig Kieswetter (wk), 7 Samit Patel, 8 CR Woakes, 9 James Tredwell, 10 Steven Finn, 11 James Dernbach.

{/niftybox}