Match particulars
Afghanistan vs India
Bridgetown, 10.30am native, 8.00pm IST, 2.30pm GMT
Large image – India vs Rashid Khan
It takes a genius to beat a genius, and India are fortunate to have Suryakumar Yadav, who has dominated Rashid in T20s, scoring 86 runs in 58 balls at a strike charge of 148 with out being dismissed. Shivam Dube goes at the next strike charge (155) over a smaller pattern dimension (18 balls), however that brings into image the opposite benefit that India have: left-hand batters. Rashid has not performed as properly in opposition to them in T20s these days. He stored them all the way down to a strike charge of 109 in 2022 and 2023. This yr, it is up at 141.
Afghanistan’s bowling is their greatest power, however India have them coated. So which means certainly one of Afghanistan’s batters should have a subject day.
Type information
Afghanistan: LWWWW (Final 5 accomplished matches, most up-to-date first)
India: WWWWW
Within the highlight – Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Axar Patel
A lot of the main focus on this sport can be on thriller spin. However beneath all that, fortunately flying underneath the radar, giving each tangible and intangible outcomes is Axar Patel. His left-arm spin is all about containment, however he does that by attacking the stumps, whereas his batting at No. 8 offers India the boldness to hit out from ball one. Axar also needs to take pleasure in the truth that Afghanistan ought to have solely two left-hand batters of their prime eight.
Workforce information
India have no must tinker with their XI. And regardless of the loss to West Indies, Afghanistan won’t both.
Afghanistan (possible): 1 Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), 2 Ibrahim Zadran, 3 Gulbadin Naib, 4 Azmatullah Omarzai, 5 Mohammad Nabi, 6 Najibullah Zadran, 7 Karim Janat, 8 Rashid Khan (capt), 9 Noor Ahmad, 10 Naveen-ul-Haq, 11 Fazalhaq Farooqi
India (possible): 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Rishabh Pant (wk), 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Shivam Dube, 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Axar Patel, 9 Jasprit Bumrah, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Arshdeep Singh
Pitch and situations
Bridgetown has provided respectable batting situations, having hosted one of many three 200-plus scores seen on this match. The climate should not be an issue.
Stats and trivia
- Afghanistan have performed India in 13 video games throughout codecs, however are but to win one
- Gurbaz (167) and Farooqi (12) are presently the very best scorer and the very best wicket-taker, respectively, within the T20 World Cup 2024
- India haven’t confronted Rashid so much in T20Is, however in two video games, they’ve scored 69 runs in eight overs with out dropping a single wicket to him
- Rohit and Kohli are tied on 4042 T20I runs, with solely Babar Azam (4145) forward of them
Quotes
“I all the time thought that in probably the most tough section of T20, like between [overs] 7 to 14, 7 to 16 – I had considered that so much earlier than making my debut for India – if I do properly right here, if I bat with a superb strike charge, then I generally is a game-changer on that day. And once I stored doing it repeatedly, I felt that that is my sport plan going ahead.”
India batter Suryakumar Yadav
Alagappan Muthu is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
