After handling the white wash to the Zimbabwe Cricket team in 50 over format, now MS Dhoni’s men are folding their sleeves for the new born baby of Cricket.
The India team will take on Zimbabwe for the first t20 international on June 18 at Harare Sports Club in the capital of Zimbabwe.
Dhoni now would like to finish this tour by another dominant performance in all the three t20 internationals against Zimbabwe that will kick on Saturday.
This Indian team has completely young and new faces but expect of Faiz Fazal all the other 14 players have IPL contracts and have enough expereince to handle the pressure of t20 format.
While the likes of Kedar Jadhav and Manish Pandey had toured Zimbabwe in 2015 under the Captaincy of Ajinkya Rahane and they managed to draw that series by 1-1 as India team was defeated in the second game of 2015 t20 series.
Meanwhile, players like KL Rahul and Jasprit Bumrah could prove to be the X factor for the Indian side led by the expereince of MS Dhoni in t20 Cricket as a skipper.
On the other side, Zimbabwe team would be looking to bounce back from the 3-0 defeat by the hands of Indian team. This zimbabwe team has really been poor in both bowling and batting in the 50 over format.
But Zimbabwe fans can expect for some competiton from their local team as they had done in the 2015 t20 series against the same side.
In 2015 series Zimbabwe had won the second match of the t20 series and mananged to draw the series by 1-1. The coach of Zimbabwe Makhaya Ntini need to ask his boys to give some solid performance both with ball and bat.
While Zimababwe think tank has called Tinotenda Mutombodzi, Chamunorwa Chibhabha and Tapiwa Mufudza in their Squad for t20.
INDIAN SQUAD
Faiz Fazal, Karun Nair, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain and wk),Barindar Sran, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ambati Rayudu, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Jayant Yadav, KL Rahul, Mandeep Singh.
ZIMBABWE SQUAD
Brian Chari,Vusimuzi Sibanda, Sikandar Raza, Elton Chigumbura, Hamilton Masakadza,Tendai Chatara, Chamu Chibhaha, Donald Tiripano, Malcolm Waller, Peter Moor, Graeme Cremer (captain),Tapiwa Mufudza, Tinotenda Mutombodzi, Richmond Mutumbami (wk), Taurai Muzarabani, Neville Madziva, Timycen Maruma, Wellington Masakadza.
PREDICTION
MS Dhoni and his boys is looking red hot favourite to come out victorious against the Graeme Cremer’s zimbabwe side.
But this game of Cricket is full of uncertainities, if zimbabwe bowlers will be able to strike couple of Wicket in the first six over then they maight get some chance gainst this heavy loaded Indian side.
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