“All tickets for T20 match sold out,” reads a board outside and it is going to be a huge limelight issue at the Kerala Cricket Association office, and now 3 days left for the T20I final match to happen. Today the match India vs New Zealand is all set to take place in the Thiruvananthapuram and it can be an exceptional match on this Tuesday as India and New Zealand battle in this T20I series decider.
India won by 6 runs
It’s taken more than three years that the state Kerala welcomes the International Cricket. This will be a kind of new form of cricket which can be considered as the shortest format – which is moving from the city Kochi to another city Thiruvananthapuram.
The Green Fields, which is set to host the encounter, will be the 50th international venue in the country where the much-touted match India vs New Zealand is all set to play.
Though this can be possible to witness jazz or a huge fanfare all around the game that can be threatening to be dampened by even a single drop of rain.
Today somehow showers are expected to hit the day so obviously, the match will be going to be affected though players will be literally going to manage the game.
India vs New Zealand 2nd T20I Match
NZ 61/6 (8.0 Ovs) CRR: 7.62
IND 67/5 (8.0 Ovs) CRR: 8.38
(Match reduced to 8 overs per side due to rain)
Teams:
India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Virat Kohli(c), Hardik Pandya, MS Dhoni(w), Manish Pandey, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal
New Zealand (Playing XI): Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Kane Williamson(c), Tom Bruce, Glenn Phillips(w), Henry Nicholls, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Trent Boult
The much awaited and anticipated Cricket match India vs New Zealand is all set to occur because of the sub-air system in place, and among the players, the encounter is literally going to be high.
Given India’s latest experiment so that the team is having 5 fantastic and frontline bowlers, alongside Hardik Pandya’s arrival is going to help the match.
This time the team India is having some expectations from the 2 crucial players which include Hardik Pandya and Shreyas Iyer and the duo can give tough competition to the team New Zealand today.
Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni can have a slow yet clear start and the team India then obviously will not change their approach towards the match.
New Zealand is blessed with the player Colin Munro, who scored a century in the last match so he can give tough competition to the team India, no doubt of it.
Both the teams decided to take rest on the eve of the latest match, both teams also had a good practice session so the tonight match is going to be the dhamakedaar.
This is the same ground where the players have already played previously and the complexities of the weather, the playing conditions can give a pleasant surprise to the fans.
As a consequence both the sides will finalize the selected final players’ XI only a few hours prior begin of the match.
In the current domestic match between Jharkhand and Kerala and this can be going to aid spinners – 26 of the 31 wickets fell to spinners in less 3 days.
The team New Zealand played the match till now quite well in consecutive numbers.
The 2 important players like Mitchell Santner and Ish Sodhi till now managed to trouble the Indian batsmen. So, in this match India vs New Zealand the duo can give more troubled to the team India.
But the Indian spinners’ are ready to face tonight the batsmen of the team New Zealand batters have also got the better of India’s spinners.
This is the middle order-disorder where the team India can be failed to perform but still the openers and their performance matters for any damn game – the only some players can be worth to occupied the good position in the match of India vs New Zealand.
This will be remaining critical role of the New Zealand pacers to get the breakthrough very early.
When: India vs New Zealand, 3rd T20I, November 7, 19:00 IST
Venue: Green Fields Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram
Expectations: A couple of spells of rain can hit the floor tonight, also thunderstorms can be the witness as the weather report is saying so.
The temperature should drift around 28 degrees Celsius.
Team News:
India:
Bhuvneshwar Kumar confirmed that each player in the team is fit.
The team is having some and important little knowledge about the going conditions in the field of the game.
So till now, the final XI is now selected and it is going to be decided few hours before the match will begin.
As far as the combination is concerned, India can be tinker with it and will be performing at the playground.
New Zealand:
Much like India, New Zealand will also select the final XI before the starting of the match.
The player selection on Tuesday will be done post after assessing the conditions on the morning to see how this is going to affect the match.
The pitch is all set to assisted spinners in the recent past which can prompt New Zealand.
There is huge expectation fans are having from Tom Latham and there is the possibility that he can have a shorter play.
Glenn Philips is going to display his super skill or talent in the tonight match and Tom Bruce’s batting abilities will be going to test.
Teams:
India (From): Hardik Pandya, MS Dhoni(w), Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Dinesh Karthik, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Virat Kohli(c), Manish Pandey, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal and Lokesh Rahul
New Zealand (From): Glenn Phillips(w), Henry Nicholls, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Kane Williamson(c), Adam Milne, Ish Sodhi, Trent Boult, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Tim Southee and Tom Bruce.
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