India vs. England 1st Test Series 2024: live streaming details.

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The India vs. England 1st Test Series is scheduled for 2024. This series promises to be a thrilling encounter between two cricketing powerhouses, and here's a comprehensive guide to help you stay updated on the schedule, venues, participating teams, and how to catch the action live.

The Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, commonly known as Uppal Stadium, is an international cricket stadium in Hyderabad, Telangana. Generally, the wicket here is considered a flat track, which tends to slow down as the game progresses. This means that the spinners would enjoy bowling here more than the pacers.

With two of the greatest spinners of all time in their attack, India bowled England out for 246 on a surface friendlier than the ones we have seen recently in India. By stumps India had wiped off 119 of those as Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma feasted on an attack that consisted of Jack Leach and two spinners with just one Test between them.

However, India came roaring into the game once the spinners came on. Ravichandran Ashwin drew first blood in the 12th over by dismissing Duckett. Jadeja then got the wicket of Ollie Pope and that brought Joe Root in. Root had a close call off the second ball he faced off Jadeja, with India unsuccessfully trying to overturn an LBW appeal that didn't go their way. Crawley fell soon thereafter but Root and Bairstow then steadied the ship for England.

We will find the answer to that question but despite England not losing a series since Stokes and McCullum took over, they remain the underdogs in this one, with yet another series win for India being the most unsurprising result. England are the last side to have defeated India in India, in the 2012/13 series. Since then, India has never even come close to losing a series at home and has lost just three Test matches overall in that period. 

Jack Leach has stopped Rohit Sharma from playing Test cricket for 95 runs many times. That's in seven innings that Leach has bowled to Rohit. This time, the aggressive field lured Leach into a big shot. He shortened his distance by looking at Rohit jump out of the crease. India won 80 to 1.

Number of balls it has taken Yashasvi Jaiswal to get to his fifty. He has been ruthless on any error in length after his first two swept sixes. India 77 for 0 in 11.1 overs.

Another expensive over from Tom Hartley, 7 runs from it. How long does Stokes continue with him? We know he's on debut, and he needs confidence but isn't 63 for no wicket in 9 overs enough for the captain to turn to a different option? Especially when they haven't got that big a score to defend.

And this time, Gill is quite lucky. The second ball of the 14th from Hartley, England goes up in appeal, the umpire turns it down and Stokes takes the review. To the naked eye, it looks out in slow motion but ball tracking shows that the ball went above the stumps. We are back to the good old days of Test cricket already now, from an England perspective. They have burnt their reviews inside the first 14 overs. Jaiswal is 54 off 51, Gill on two off seven.

It takes a special skill to get a 65-over-old ball to seam a touch against the angle from around the wicket and hit the top of the middle especially when Ben Stokes is hardly hitting anything off anything but the middle of the bat. That ends England's inning sat 246, which is 91 runs after they lost their seventh wicket. India will still take a 246 all out because this is not a surface as spiteful as we have seen some in India in recent times. A simple equation for India: bat till stumps tomorrow and the Test could be theirs. Twenty-three overs to go today.

Ashwin bowled an absolute jaffa that almost got Stokes stumped off the second last ball of that over. Then an easy single to keep the strike once again. Stokes has harvested strike wonderfully thus far. Bumrah to continue.

Well, India burnt their last DRS off the second ball of the over and Ashwin knocks him over with the third. Fuller and across Wood who goes for an almighty sweep, misses it entirely and the ball hits the off stump, which ends up in Bharat's hands.

The Barmy Army was at the stands over midwicket when the first over was bowled, bursting into song as Zak Crawley, perhaps suffering a bit of an identity crisis, actually left the first ball from Jasprit Bumrah. Since that first over though, England’s openers have been loving the new ball coming onto the bat. Rohit Sharma has even had to push Ravindra Jadeja at a point almost three-fourths of the way to the boundary to stop those runs from leaking.

Half an hour into the Test, both sides can pull out a highlights package and be proud of it. India has gone past the bat often, 11 times to be precise, in seven overs. Any of those could have produced an edge. England, on the other hand, have smacked six crisp boundaries, all off the middle of the bat. It is 32 for 0 in seven overs. The left and the forward defensive have been eliminated. This is Baseball. These are good batting conditions. England have made their moves. India's response awaited. They haven't turned defensive, they haven't yet gone to spin.

Proper backs against the wall time for England now and yet, Stokes threw the kitchen sink at a pull shot, which he missed entirely, off Jadeja in the 38th over. Stokes is on six of 17, Foakes on two of 11.

Root tries to sweep, the top edge and is taken at short fine leg. Root couldn't control the bounce and it loops to Bumrah for the easiest of catches. Huge wicket and India have got two fresh batters in now.

India:-  

Rohit Sharma (C). Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, R. Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.

England:-

Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes(C), Ben Foakes(wk), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Mark Wood, Jack Leach.

India vs. England 1st Test Series in 2024 promises cricket fans an exciting spectacle. Being part of the live audience adds a whole new dimension to the cricketing experience.