🏏ICC Men's T20 W C 2026: Group A, M 27: India vs Pak at Colombo🏏 - Page 6

Salman Agha | Pakistan captain: We want to bowl first. It looks a bit tacky, so we feel it will assist the bowlers for the first few overs so we want to use that. We are relaxed in our group and excited for this challenge.

Suryakumar Yadav | India captain: Not at all, we were looking to bat first. We won last two games defending so we don't want to change it.

Jay Shah, Arun Dhumal and Rajeev Shukla. They are in a different VVIP enclosure to which Mohsin Naqvi and Salman Naseer were spotted.

Tarun: "If India play Kuldeep in place of Arshdeep who will be the two new ball bowlers?" -- Hardik and Bumrah perhaps. Dube is an option as well and he opened the bowling in the Asia Cup final, but that was in the absence of Hardik. Unlikely he will take the new ball.

India XI: Ishan Kishan (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah

Pakistan (Playing XI): Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Salman Agha(c), Babar Azam, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Usman Khan(w), Shaheen Afridi, Abrar Ahmed, Usman Tariq

Aaj bhi Rinku ko hi mauka diya Washington ko nehi

Good luck to Team india

Teams:

India (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan(w), Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah

Pakistan (Playing XI): Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Salman Agha(c), Babar Azam, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Usman Khan(w), Shaheen Afridi, Abrar Ahmed, Usman Tariq

Suryakumar Yadav | India captain: Not at all, we were looking to bat first. We won last two games defending so we don't want to change it. It is an occasion, it's a high-stake game. This sport teaches you a lot of things, any side can win the game on a given day. Two changes. Abhishek Sharma comes in and Kuldeep Yadav is in for Arshdeep Singh.

Salman Agha | Pakistan captain: We want to bowl first. It looks a bit tacky, so we feel it will assist the bowlers for the first few overs so we want to use that. We are relaxed in our group and excited for this challenge. Bigger ground than SSC and the pitch is slower than SSC. Same team for us.

Pakistan have won the toss and have opted to field

All the best boys

Jeet k aaiyo

Not rooting for India today only because of so much media hype , over promotion of this match..

Barish ho jaye aur match band ho Jaye

Star sports ki paisa doob Jaye

No handshake between the captains.