The 3-match T20 internationals between the visitors India and host England is going to start from today. The venue of the match will be the Rose Bowl Stadium in Southampton. This T20 is going to be very important considering the T20 World Cup to be held in Australia this year. Indian cricket board president Sourav Ganguly has even said that the real preparation for the T20 World Cup will start from the England T20 series itself. Only the players who will perform here will be included in the potential players of the World Cup.
Captain Rohit Sharma’s team has won 7 out of the last 11 T20 matches played against the English team. At the same time, the English team has won only 4 matches. In the last three series encounter between Indian team has won all three series against them.
Visitors have an excellent record against the host
In 2021, the Indian team defeated the Britishers by a margin of 3-2. At the same time, on the India tour of England 2018, India won the 3-match series 2-1. Earlier, in the 2016-17 tour of India, India defeated England 2-1.
We will not see these Indian players in the first T20
We will not see some main Indian players for the first T20 match. These players will be part of the Indian squad from the second T20. Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, Shreyas Iyer, and Rishabh Pant are not part of this match. Their unavailability is due to they have recently played a Test match.
IND Probable XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh/Avesh Khan/Umran Malik, Yuzvendra Chahal
ENG Probable XI: Jos Buttler (c&wk), Jason Roy, Dawid Malan, Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone, Phil Salt, Harry Brook, Sam Curran/David Willey, Richard Gleeson, Chris Jordan/Reece Topley/Tymal Mills, Matthew Parkinson
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