England opt to bowl; Pujara to open
Anderson returns for England
England have made two changes from the seven-wicket win over New Zealand at Headingley, with pace bowler James Anderson replacing Jamie Overton and wicketkeeper Sam Billings – who was a Covid replacement for Ben Foakes during the third Test – keeping the gloves.
Foakes, who was also not able to keep on day three because of a back injury, has not recovered as well as England would have liked.
Cheteshwar Pujara and Shubman Gill will form a makeshift opening partnership for India in the absence of Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul.
England XI: Zak Crawley, Alex Lees, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (c), Sam Billings (wk), Matthew Potts, Stuart Broad, Jack Leach, James Anderson.
India XI: Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Hanuma Vihari, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah (c).
