Why change a winning team? Victory by ten wickets and with 188 balls to spare suggests a side in reasonable working order. There is no news as yet on Kohli's groin niggle, while Arshdeep Singh - who missed the same game with an abdominal strain - wasn't exactly missed in the bowling ranks.
Many of the same names who put the hammer down in the T20Is are lined up in the middle order, awaiting their chance to lay another marker. However, should Kohli be fit to return, he is likely to replace one of Iyer and Suryakumar.
India (probable): 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Shreyas Iyer, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Mohammed Shami, 9 Jasprit Bumrah, 10 Prasidh Krishna, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
Why change a losing team? The reunion of England's Fab Five fell resoundingly flat at The Oval, but few could argue that the incumbent top seven - up to and including Moeen - are not currently the first-choice picks for next year's World Cup.
So that leaves the bowlers, and what could any of them prove while defending a target of 111? The reintroduction of Sam Curran, potentially in place of Craig Overton, would be one plausible tweak, given he is still being eased back to action after his back injury. But reboot and reload seems an equally fair bet, and hope for a few more handy pointers in the next two games.
England (probable): 1 Jason Roy, 2 Jonny Bairstow, 3 Joe Root, 4 Ben Stokes, 5 Jos Buttler (capt & wk), 6 Liam Livingstone, 7 Moeen Ali, 8 David Willey, 9 Craig Overton/Sam Curran, 10 Brydon Carse, 11 Reece Topley
Pitch and conditions
Another scorcher is in prospect on Thursday - bright sunshine and temperatures pushing 27 degrees Celsius - and given that lateral movement at Lord's invariably depends on cloud cover, the pitch is liable to be another hard, true road. Plus, with sunset not until after 9pm, the floodlights will not be a factor. Win toss and… chase? It is how these teams prefer to roll.
Stats and trivia
- England's ten-wicket loss at The Oval was the sixth in their ODI history, and their first since the World Cup quarter-final against Sri Lanka in Colombo in March 2011.
- India have won four of their eight previous ODIs at Lord's - including, famously, the World Cup final against West Indies in 1983 - although England are undefeated in their last three meetings since 2004. That includes a Duckworth Lewis-induced tie in 2011, when Ravi Bopara was run-out for 90 off the final ball before rain curtailed the match.
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"We have lost a few games at the moment but that is good for us going forward, and closer to a World Cup, we will start winning. We want to win now but you don't want to win all games. Sometimes you learn more from losing games."
Moeen Ali puts a positive spin on England's first-ODI hammering"Personally, my plan is to just keep it simple. That is my mantra. You only have to think if the wickets are different. Otherwise, if you repeat the same things over and over again, chances of success are that much more."
Mohammed Shami doesn't expect to deviate from a proven game plan after his three-wicket haul in the first match
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