India v England, 1st Test, Chennai , Preview , Live Scores, Live Streaming
After the Mumbai terror attacks, everything seems to be coming to normal, with England after abandoning the remaining 2 one day matches, have returned to India to play the 2 test series.
The 1st cricket Test between India and England will be played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, on Thursday , 11th Dec. Start time 09.30 am IST(04.00GMT). Tight security has been arranged to the both squads. In fact the stadium has become a virtual fortress. 
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Pitch and conditions
Forecasts suggest heavy rain over the next three days as a cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal moves towards this southern city, raising fears of a truncated match.
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Parthasarthy Kannan, the chief groundsman at the stadium, said to a newspaper that the heavy rains last month and the latest storm had hampered the preparation of the wicket.
Team News India -
After a one Test match ban Gautam Gambhir will return to open the innings with Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj singh will replace Saurav Ganguli, apart from these changes,the squad remains same that beat Australia in Nagpur a month ago.
India : (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 Yuvraj Singh, 7 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt/wk), 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Amit Mishra.
Team News England -
Off-spinner Graeme Swann will replace stuart Broad and wicketkeeper Matt Prior for tim ambrose for the 1st test .
England team: 1 Andrew Strauss, 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Ian Bell, 4 Kevin Pietersen (capt), Paul Collingwood, 6 Andrew Flintoff, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Matt Prior (wk), 9 James Anderson, 10 Steve Harmison, 11 Monty Panesar
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