Rohit Sharma playing Team India 11 vs ENG T20 WC 2024: Batting aggressively, India will look to break a decade-long losing streak in the knockouts when they take on defending champions England (IND vs ENG T20 WC) in the semi-finals of the T20 Cricket World Cup here on Thursday. The last time these two teams met in the semi-finals of this tournament, England beat India by 10 wickets in 2022. After a crushing 10-wicket defeat in Adelaide, India have managed to shed their old ways at the top of the order and are unbeaten so far in the tournament. Given the likely conditions at the Providence Stadium, on paper Rohit Sharma and his team look strong and ready for revenge.
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Rohit said about the 11-run game against England
Team India has not made any major changes in the playing 11 in all the matches played in the tournament so far, but captain Rohit Sharma (Rohit Sharma Playing 11 vs ENG) is fit to go in the league match being played in America. He got it for fast bowling and that decision also proved correct but when the match reached the Super-8 race, captain Rohit included Kuldeep Yadav in the playing XI in place of Mohammad Siraj and Kuldeep’s spin bowled brilliantly in favor of the Indian team. , Kuldeep Yadav has taken a total of 7 wickets in the last three Super-8 matches (4 spinners vs Rohit Sharma) in the T20 World Cup semi-final against England. We will assess the circumstances and then we will decide to play four spinners.”
These changes have to be made for the four spinners in the playing 11
Now the question is that there are three spinners present in the current Indian playing 11 which includes Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel and now if we go by Rohit’s statement then four spinners will sit only when one player is dropped. This option will be useful only after the team has done so and if such an equation is created, Shivam Dubey may have to drop out of the semi-final match against England and will be replaced by Yuzvendra Chahal in the playing XI.
Team India Probable Playing XI: Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey/Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav.
Team India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicket keeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Sanju Samson, Mohammad Siraj, Yashshwi Jaiswal