India tour of West Indies: Team India will start their tour of the Caribbean Island today starting of with T20I in Lauderhill, Florida. Lots of things to look out for after the rift rumours between Virat-Rohit, playing 11, youngsters in the squad, build towards World T20, records on the line.
Lauderhill, Florida: Team India will take on the West Indies in the 1st T20I on Saturday.
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will look to better each other in terms of T20I records:
After denying rift rumours Team India's Top guns Virat Kohli-Rohit Sharma will look to get the better of each other when India take to the field against Windies. The two Indian stalwarts currently hold the joint record of hitting most half-centuries in the shortest format. However, it must be noted Kohli has played just 62 innings as compared to Rohit’s 86.
With 20 fifties each, Kohli and Rohit take the joint top spot while New Zealand opener Martin Guptill stands at a distant third with 16 half-centuries to his name.
Most 50+ scores in T20Is:20: Virat Kohli/ Rohit Sharma (IND)
16: Martin Guptill (NZ)
15: Chris Gayle (WI)/ Brendon McCullum (NZ)
14: Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL)
13: Mohammad Shahzad (AFG)
Sights on World T20:
'We have a T20 World Cup next year and the ICC test Championship starting, its a great position for the new guys to be in right now. Opportunity for guys like Rishabh Pant to cement his place in the squad in the absence of regular finishers MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya'.
Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey will eye to make the middle order spot their own, while Khaleel Ahmed,Navdeep Saini, Rahul Chahar can make the impact with the ball.
Krunal Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar, Washington Sundar will try to put on some performances in the absence of Kuldeep-Chahal.
Team India's Probable Playing 11:
- Rohit Sharma(VC)
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Virat Kohli(C)
- Shreyas Iyer
- Rishabh Pant(Wk)
- Krunal Pandya
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar
- Rahul Chahar
- Khaleel Ahmed
- Mohammed Shami
West Indies Probable Playing 11:
- Evin Lewis
- Josh Campbell
- Shimron Hetymer
- Nicolas Pooran
- Kieron Pollard
- Carlos Braithwaite(C)
- Jason Mohammed
- Keemo Paul
- Sunil Narine
- Oshane Thomas
- Sheldon Cottrell
Considering the dimensions of the ground and the suraface on offer at Lauderhill it is expected to be a high scoring match with hard hitters on both the oppositions.
Andre Russell ruled out of 1st two T20I's:
In what comes as a serious blow to the West Indies cricket team, all-rounder Andre Russell has been ruled out from the first two T20I's due to knee injury.
Russell has been suffering from a knee for quite some time now. In the 2019 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the all-rounder was seen limping several times while holding his knee. Even in the recently concluded ICC World Cup 2019 saw him being ruled out of the squad in the later half of the tournament.
Jason Mohammed comes in as his replacement.
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