India win toss, choose to bowl versus Pakistan in hit T20WC match

Melbourne: India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and chosen to bowl versus arch-rivals Pakistan in their opening T20 World Cup match, here on Sunday. Both Pakistan and India have actually fielded 3 seamers and 2 spinners in their particular playing XIs. India have actually chosen Dinesh Karthik ahead of Rishabh Pant in the wicketkeeper’s function. Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel are the 2 spinners, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami and Arshdeep Singh are the 3 seamers. India and Pakistan both played one warm-up match prior to they began their T20 World Cup project. Pakistan suffered a defeat to England by 6 wickets in their warm-up match, while India beat Australia by 6 runs. India lost by 10 wickets to Pakistan in their group-stage encounter in the T20 World Cup in 2015 which played a huge part in knocking them out of the competition early. Speaking at the time of the toss, India skipper Rohit Sharma stated, “We are going to field. Appears like a great pitch, it’s constantly good with overcast conditions. Believe the ball will swing around a bit. Preparations have actually been excellent. We played a number of practice video games in Brisbane. Time to come out and enjoy ourselves. We were anticipating absolutely nothing less than this, ideally, we’ll amuse them. We have 7 batters, 3 seamers and 2 spinners.” Speaking at the time of the toss, Pakistan captain Babar Azam stated,” Toss is not in our hands. We’ll attempt to publish around 160-170 We have actually prepared well, and we are all set for this huge video game. We won a series back home, and we played a tri-series in New Zealand, so we are prepared. We have 3 quick bowlers and 2 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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