Match between India and Afghanistan today Kuldeep Yadav may get a chance
New Delhi. Indian cricket team will enter the field today after a break of 8 days. Team India will face Afghanistan in the Super 8 match of T20 World Cup. The USA leg is over, now it’s the Caribbean leg. Super 8 matches, semi finals and finals of the World Cup will be played in West Indies. The pitches here are perfect for spinners. The focus will be on spinners in Thursday’s match between India and Afghanistan. Wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav may be included in the Indian playing XI while fast bowler Mohammad Siraj may have to sit out.
The dusty pitch of Kensington Oval in Barbados will help the spinners. Here wrist spinners will prove to be more effective than leg spinners. Rohit Sharma will want to rely on the wrist spinner on this type of pitch. There are two leg spinners in the Indian World Cup squad. But among them, Kuldeep Yadav can be preferred over Yuzvendra Chahal.
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A day before the match against Afghanistan, Team India head coach Rahul Dravid hinted to include the spinner in the playing eleven. In such a situation, Kuldeep Yadav hopes to get a place against Afghanistan. Yuzvendra Chahal will have to wait a bit to make his debut in the T20 World Cup. New York’s pitches suited the Pacers. So Rohit and Dravid decided to go to America with three frontline pacers and two spinners. Jadeja and Akshar Patel got a chance in America. Both are all-rounders and provide depth in batting as well as bowling.
India’s probable XI against Afghanistan: Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah.
Tags: ICC T20 World Cup, IND vs AFG, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Siraj
First published: June 20, 2024, 18:20 IST