Each Pakistan and India have fielded three seamers and two spinners of their respective enjoying XIs
Melbourne: India captain Rohit Sharma received the toss and elected to bowl towards arch-rivals Pakistan of their opening T20 World Cup match, right here on Sunday.
Each Pakistan and India have fielded three seamers and two spinners of their respective enjoying XIs.
India have most popular Dinesh Karthik forward of Rishabh Pant within the wicketkeeper’s function.
Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel are the 2 spinners, whereas Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami and Arshdeep Singh are the three seamers.
India and Pakistan each performed one warm-up match earlier than they began their T20 World Cup marketing campaign. Pakistan suffered a defeat to England by 6 wickets of their warm-up match, whereas India defeated Australia by 6 runs.
India misplaced by 10 wickets to Pakistan of their group-stage encounter within the T20 World Cup final yr and that performed a giant half in knocking them out of the event early.
Talking on the time of the toss, India skipper Rohit Sharma mentioned, “We’re going to subject first. Seems to be like a very good pitch, it is all the time good with overcast circumstances. Assume the ball will swing round a bit. Preparations have been good. We performed a few follow video games in Brisbane. Time to return out and luxuriate in ourselves. We have been anticipating nothing lower than this, hopefully, we’ll entertain them. Now we have seven batters, three seamers and two spinners.”
Talking on the time of the toss, Pakistan captain Babar Azam mentioned, ” Toss is just not in our palms. We’ll attempt to publish round 160-170. Now we have ready nicely, and we’re prepared for this large recreation. We received a sequence again dwelling, and we performed a tri-series in New Zealand, so we’re ready. Now we have three quick bowlers and two spinners.”
Groups:
India: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh.
Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Shan Masood, Haider Ali, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Asif Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah.
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