Hosts India play 2019 finalists New Zealand in a battle of the Cricket World Cup’s unbeaten table-toppers in Dharamsala.
Who: India vs New Zealand
When: Sunday, October 22, 2pm (08:30 GMT)
The place: HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala, India
Over the previous week, the Indian metropolis of Dharamsala acquired the season’s first snowfall. As tv cameras pan out behind the stadium, the Himalayan mountaintops are noticeable of their pristine white glory.
Temperatures are set to rise on Sunday, although, when the one two unbeaten groups on the Cricket World Cup meet. New Zealand and hosts India are 4-0 within the match, though the 2019 runners-up New Zealanders lead on web run charge.
New Zealand started its match by beating defending champions England by 9 wickets, after which made straightforward work of the Netherlands (by 99 runs), Bangladesh (by eight wickets) and Afghanistan (by 149 runs).
The harder a part of their league marketing campaign begins on Sunday, in opposition to two-time champions India, adopted by Australia, South Africa, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
“India will likely be an enormous problem in its house situations. In the meanwhile, they’re trying fairly powerful to beat,” New Zealand left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner mentioned after the win in opposition to Afghanistan.
Certainly, India have been steamrolling its opponents. They beat Australia by six wickets, brushed apart Afghanistan by eight wickets, beat archrivals Pakistan by seven wickets and defeated Bangladesh by seven wickets.
Quick bowler Jasprit Bumrah has led the wicket-taking for India, with 10 wickets in 4 video games at a mean of 13.40, and has been significantly efficient within the center overs.
“Selecting up wickets within the center overs helps us management the run charges. We’ve got managed to try this in all our video games,” mentioned India wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav after the win in opposition to Bangladesh. “We’ve got began properly within the powerplays too, besides in opposition to Bangladesh. It permits us spinners to manage [proceedings] as properly.”
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India’s star all-rounder Hardik Pandya has been dominated out of the sport. He twisted his left ankle whereas bowling in Pune and has been despatched to Bengaluru for rehabilitation.
Suryakumar Yadav is predicted to get a recreation on Sunday and bat at quantity six. However India’s fear will likely be balancing out the bowling assault, as not one of the top-order batsmen can reliably bowl.
Whether or not selecting bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur or pacer Mohammed Shami, India will solely have 5 bowlers to select from. It’s more likely to be inclined in direction of Shami to have the perfect likelihood to bowl 50 overs in opposition to an in-form New Zealand batting lineup.
The Black Caps proceed to be with out skipper Kane Williamson, who’s at the moment out injured after fracturing his thumb, and Tom Latham will as soon as once more be in cost.
Face to face
The 2 international locations have performed 116 one-day internationals. India holds the higher file, with 58 wins.
New Zealand have gained 50 of these video games, whereas seven resulted in no-result and one in a tie.