INDvSA: 1st T20I Match Preview

Team India’s eyes are now on the World Cup. Its preparations will start with the 5 T20 series against South Africa starting on Thursday. Captain and batsman over KL Rahul in the absence of experienced players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli

After IPL 2022, now Team India has started preparing for T20 World Cup. It will start with a series of five T20s against South Africa starting on Thursday (June 9). The first match will be played at Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium in Delhi. Indian team’s regular captain Rohit Sharma has been rested for this series.

Apart from them, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah are also not part of this series under workload management. In the absence of Rohit, the command of the team will be in the hands of KL Rahul. India has a chance to create a world record by winning 13 consecutive T20Is in Delhi. India has won 12 matches in a row. However, the head coach of the team is not giving much importance to this record of Rahul Dravid. His eyes are on the T20 World Cup and in such a situation, he will try to test new and experienced players.

in such a situation, the entire responsibility of scoring runs in the top order will be on the shoulders of KL Rahul. The good thing is that he is in good form. While captaining Lucknow in IPL 2022, Rahul scored more than 600 runs. However, who will be his opening partner in this series? The team management will definitely be in dilemma regarding this. Either Rituraj Gaikwad and Ishaan Kishan will get a chance. But, both the batsmen could not perform well in IPL 2022. But, a backup opener is needed for the T20 World Cup. In such a situation, it is necessary to give opportunities to both of them to regain their lost form.

KL Rahul (capt), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Venkatesh Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel , Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Umran Malik