Rajkot, Nov 4 - Afterwards a bright exhibition in the first match, India will aim to seal the three-match series when they take on New Zealand in the 2nd T20 International at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in RAJKOT here on Saturday.
India, currently lead the series 1-0 with an extensive success in the first match at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi and in the upcoming match, India is also the favorites because of their current form and the positions.
The hosts will at on time again heavily bank on the openers Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan, who destroy same half tons to set the tone with a 158-run record opening stand and guide the hosts post an onerous 202/3.
Aside from them, skipper Virat Kohli will also play a crucial role in the batting department alongside middle-order batsmen Hardik Pandya and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
After the retirement of veteran pacer Ashish Nehra, Kohli could now play with the four bowlers or might include wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav in the playing XI because of the conditions.
But for that, the New Zealand will have to ameliorate their bowling and fielding side. Skipper Kane Williamson also rued his team's poor bowling effort for the loss to India. So they need to step up in this department in order to equalize the series.
Their batting department seemed sorted as apart from the last match, their middle-order batsmen played brilliantly. But in the coming match, Williamson might enroll skillful batsmen Ross Taylor in the playing XI to give more than complex.
This is my home confluence and I know what variety of wicket there is here and pitch as well.Usually, the focus will be on revolving.What I do in the IPL also. I know and judge how the wicket is behaving and bowl accordingly.There is a little turn on offer, the ball does skid and there is less bounce.I will work on bowling well and afford to bethink my teammates also.
Only one T20I has been played at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium and it was won by the side that fielded first. The pitch here has generally been excellent for batting and is known to remain true throughout a match. So taking this as well as the dew factor into account, the toss-winning team in this match may prefer to bowl first.
New Zealand (XI): 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Kane Williamson, 3 Colin Munro, 4 Ross Taylor/Tom Bruce, 5 Tom Latham, 6 Henry Nicholls, 7 Colin de Grandhomme, 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Trent Boult, 10 Tim Southee, 11 Ish Sodhi
India (XI): 1 Shikhar Dhawan, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 MS Dhoni, 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar 9 Jasprit Bumrah, 10 Mohammed Siraj/Manish Pandey/Dinesh Karthik 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
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