🏏India vs New Zealand, 1st T20I: JSCA Stadium Complex, Ranchi 🏏 - Page 3

Originally posted by: la_Reine

When is it starting??

Ashish singh : "New Zealand bowling looks vulnerable. Testing time for them . Meanwhile Shubman gill will continue his one day form to cement his berth . "

6.15pm Ever since Suryakumar Yadav made his T20I debut, he has been in a different league. He has three hundreds and 13 fifties in just 43 innings, but what's more incredible is that he has an average of 46.4 while striking at 180.3. Shiva Jayaraman dissects his numbers here.

Time for the pitch report: "The pitch looks excellent, it's hard with an even covering of the grass," says Ajit Agarkar. "The ball will skid on but there could be a little bit of help with the new ball." The square boundaries are around 60-odd metres, down the ground it's into the 70s.

Som T: "In my humble opinion, Gill is more suited for ODI and tests. He needs some balls to get going. Keeping him will bring back age old questions regarding 'intent'."

In injury updates, Ish Sodhi returns for New Zealand. He also has excellent numbers in India: 16 wickets from ten games and an economy of 6.64. Ruturaj Gaikwad, though, has been ruled out of the series with a wrist injury.

I honestly don't understand the logic of resting Ro and Virat after every couple of games. They have just gotten their form back. Let them play some regular cricket, fgs.

Originally posted by: Deltablues

I honestly don't understand the logic of resting Ro and Virat after every couple of games. They have just gotten their form back. Let them play some regular cricket, fgs.

India have won the toss and have opted to field

Hardik: We will have a bowl first. Looks like a good track. I can see dew right now. Just go out there and play the best cricket we know. It is a young team. We will focus on playing good cricket. Playing the ODIs before T20Is makes it easy to pass on. For a lot of them it is an experience just being in the team. Yuzi, Mukesh, Jitesh and Prithvi miss out.