Shubman Gill and his team had ample time to put the Lord’s heartbreak behind them. After the morale-crushing 22-run reverse in London, India comes to Manchester with the series on the line.

It’s been an eventful week for India, most for the wrong reasons. Akash Deep, who had fit in nicely into the pace unit could not recover in time for this fourth round bout. Then Nitish Kumar Reddy was ruled out of the series due to a knee injury.