In the first match, it was a great performance as India won the first T20I by 48 runs. With important players out, what will be the playing eleven of India in India vs New Zealand 2nd T20I? The date for the 2nd T20I is 23rd January, as the match will start at 7 PM with the toss happening at 6:30 PM. The Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur is the venue for the match.
Basically, Abhishek Sharma was all over the New Zealand bowlers in the first T20I. He scored 84 runs and became the player to score the fastest 5,000 runs in the T20 format. It was great to see that the Indian captain looked in good touch and scored 30-plus runs. Rinku Singh also ended the innings with big hits. Varun and Dube also got two wickets each, and it was a team performance.
Also check out: Abhishek Sharma fastest to 5000 T20 runs: Whose record did he break to achieve this milestone?
India vs New Zealand 2nd T20I: With no Jasprit Bumrah and Axar Patel, who will start in their place?
When we talk about the batting order, it feels like the team will not make any changes to the batting order. Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson will open the innings for the Indian team, and the number three position is locked by Ishan Kishan, as Suryakumar Yadav confirmed in the press conference before the first T20I. Ishan keeps the place till Tilak Varma is back in the team.
The captain, Suryakumar Yadav, will keep batting at the number four position and will want to continue carrying forward his form after he started his innings well in the first ODI. Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, and Shivam Dube will continue to bat down the order, as they will be given the responsibility of finishing the innings in just the way Rinku Singh did in the previous match, as he scored 44* in 20 balls, which included four boundaries and three massive sixes.
Axar Patel, who had a knock in the previous match, and India would not want to take any risk, as two players of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup squad are injured. We can see that Kuldeep Yadav has a place in the team. Jasprit Bumrah, who might be rested in this match, has Harshit Rana, who finds himself in the playing eleven. Harshit can also bat down the order as he scored a fifty in the final ODI.