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IND vs ENG 1st T20I Dream11 Prediction Possible Playing 11 Pitch Report

Sarthak Karkhanis

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March 12, 2021 at 11:58 am

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India and England face-off in the 1st of the 5 T20Is at Motera in Ahmedabad with an eye on the T20 World Cup which will be held later this year in the same country. Both the teams are considering this series as a preparation for the multi-nation tourney and two of the best teams in the world will be aiming to test their teams and observe how their players fare in the roles assigned to them.

India have finally rewarded players who played a fearless brand of cricket in the IPL and hence Suryakumar Yadav is set to get his first international cap. Rishabh Pant is back into the squad after he was axed post a poor IPL for the T20I series against Australia, while Hardik Pandya will be playing at number six, and most probably, will be bowling a few overs.

On the other hand, England will be playing with a full-strength team, unlike the Test matches. However, adapting to the Indian conditions especially the turning nature of pitch and dew will be the key for the visiting side.

All-in-all, a potentially classic series awaits between two of the top white-ball sides in the world.

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Key Players to Watch/Key Stats

Rohit Sharma needs 26 runs to score 9,000 runs in the shortest format of the game. He has scored a century against England and he will be the key in the series. The opener needs to tackle the Jofra Archer threat as the pacer has dismissed him twice in 3 innings in the IPL.
Virat Kohli has a below-par strike rate of 110 in the middle-overs and it will be interesting to see whether he adopts a fearless approach to his gameplay. He has the most runs in IND-ENG T20Is (12 inns, 346 runs, avg. 31.45, SR 130.56).
Suryakumar Yadav had an impressive strike rate of 152 against pacers in IPL 2020 and it will be interesting to see how he fares in the T20I series. Overall, he struck 480 runs at 40 in IPL 2020.
KL Rahul scored the most runs in IPL 2020 (670), but his strike rate was in question. Will he play with freedom in this series? He has a century and half-century in six T20Is vs England.
Yuzvendra Chahal has the most wickets in IND-ENG T20Is (9 in 6 matches).

England:

Ben Stokes and Eoin Morgan had strike rates of 120 and 110 respectively in the middle overs in IPL 2020. Considering they will be batting in the middle-order, the duo will be up for a big challenge.
Dawid Malan has a strike rate of 152 and an average of 61 at number three in T20Is. The No. 1 T20I batsman will have a huge task on his hands in the upcoming series.
Jos Buttler has a somewhat modest record vs India, but can fire at any given moment. He averages 28.71 in 12 matches against them, with a strike rate of 137.67.
Jofra Archer, IPL 2020’s MVP, is set to play after an elbow complaint. He will be key at both the powerplay and death over stages.

Stats and Facts

Virat Kohli is 72 runs away from becoming the first cricketer in history to reach 3,000 runs in T20Is while Jonny Bairstow needs 68 runs to reach 1,000 runs in the format.
India have won 4 out of their last 5 T20Is against England.
Chahal needs one more wicket to become India’s top wicket-taker in T20Is.
Hardik Pandya recently won man of the series in the T20Is vs Australia (SR 156 in three matches).
Adil Rashid has just three wickets in six T20Is vs India.

Possible Playing 11

Virat Kohli stated in the pre-match press conference that KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma will open the batting for the home side and Suryakumar Yadav might be preferred over Shreyas Iyer. There will be a dilemma whether to prefer a spin-bowling all-rounder or a pacer but it depends whether Hardik Pandya is fit to bowl. Also, T Natarajan is in doubt with a shoulder injury.

India: 1. Rohit Sharma, 2. KL Rahul, 3. Virat Kohli (c), 4. Suryakumar Yadav, 5. Rishabh Pant (wk), 6. Hardik Pandya, 7. Washington Sundar, 8. Axar Patel/Deepak Chahar, 9. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10. Yuzvendra Chahal, 11. T Natarajan/Shardul Thakur/Navdeep Saini

England’s Top 6 is all set, with Moeen Ali and Sam Curran set to be the all-rounders. Adil Rashid will be the lead spinner of the attack and Chris Jordan will be the pacer who is guaranteed to start. Also, after some doubt about Archer’s availability, skipper Morgan said he is available for the series.

England: 1. Jason Roy, 2. Jos Buttler (wk), 3. Dawid Malan, 4. Jonny Bairstow, 5. Eoin Morgan, 6. Ben Stokes, 7. Moeen Ali, 8. Sam Curran, 9. Jofra Archer, 10. Chris Jordan, 11. Adil Rashid

Motera Ahmedabad Pitch Report and Weather

The Ahmedabad pitch is expected to favour batsmen and offer assistance to spinners like it has in the past. Dew might come into the picture later in the evening and chasing will be the preferred option by the captain who wins the toss.

Dream11 Prediction

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Match Prediction

Both the teams will be aiming for a winning start to the 5-match series. But, given India’s familiarity with the conditions and if they adopt a fearless approach as the captain mentioned in the pre-match pre-conference, an Indian win shouldn’t come as a surprise. An exciting game awaits.

Written by Sarthak Karkhanis. Follow Sarthak on Twitter today.

Analysis: The best India T20 team for quite some time?

Tarkesh Jha

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March 12, 2021 at 10:42 am

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Analysis: The best India T20 team for quite some time? | What should India’s goals be in the upcoming T20I series vs England?

The Indian team will take on one of their most critical assignments ahead of the forthcoming World T20 later this year. Virat Kohli’s men will have a difficult challenge to tackle the flamboyant English unit. The two teams will face off across five matches, and this is perhaps the best preparations that India can hope for in the shortest format of the game before heading into the world championship.

So, what are the major objectives that the men in blue will be looking to tick off in this much-anticipated series?

Firstly, it’s integral to note that the national selection committee took a bold turn ahead of this contest. Earlier, one had witnessed a trend of players repeatedly being ignored despite some stunning performances in the IPL. Furthermore, the Indian team always looked to play the catch-up game in the T20 format. That is, they were always chasing the momentum, not setting the tone of the game right from the upfront. This was largely down to the mainly conventional style of batsmanship that continues to dominate the Indian think-tank in T20 cricket.

However, the player selection for the upcoming T20 series defied all prevailing wisdom. Newer names such as Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan and Rahul Tewatia were introduced to the setup. Fine talents like T Nataranjan and Varun Chakravarthy were persisted with in the squad too, though the duo will be unable to make it to the squad now. The Indian T20 side has often been targeted for failing to keep up with the global standards and still holding on to their safety-first approach.

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Players like Suryakumar, Kishan and Tewatia had their respective breakthrough IPL season last year. To be fair, Yadav had been knocking the national team door for quite some time. However, he broke down any remaining barriers with a career-defining campaign in 2020 and forced his way into the national team. With the inclusion of Surya and Kishan, the T20 side just seems to have gained a new lease of life altogether.

India has never had the dearth of players whose basic instinct is to attack the ball first in T20 cricket, at least in recent years. However, for that trend to amalgamate comprehensively with the incumbent strategy would obviously require some time. The selection of players such as Kishan and Suryakumar proves that the selectors have finally begun adopting an approach that has been much advocated for quite some time.

The Mumbai Indians duo promises to add some terrific flamboyance to the middle-order, which will be further bolstered by the presence of the reinvigorated Rishabh Pant. India has regularly faced the flak of going slow in the key 7-15 overs period, and southpaws such as Kishan and Pant will cause some serious trouble to the opposition’s wrist-spinners in this phase. Moreover, these are individuals who are adept at playing the long innings when required. So, they aren’t mere hit-and-go players who will click on some occasions and falter on most others.

These players’ modus operandi is that they have excelled whilst playing a vibrant, progressive brand of cricket consistently. They can be trusted to deliver the goods day in, day out. Add to this the opening pair of KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma, and India stares at a splendid T20 batting lineup; a combination that caters to the modern-day demands from this format.

Furthermore, the pace duo of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Deepak Chahar will return to the setup after recovering from their respective injuries. Kumar used to be one of the vital cogs of team India’s pace bowling arsenal. However, injuries have regularly kept him out of the scheme of things in recent times, thus somewhat pushing him down the pecking order. Similarly, Chahar had attained resounding success in the T20I series against Bangladesh in late 2019 that had almost confirmed his ticket to the World T20 2020 that couldn’t take place due to the pandemic.

Both Bhuvneshwar and Chahar have attained incredible success in the IPL, something that warrants their selection in this series. Moreover, Jasprit Bumrah’s absence will put the two in limelight and some promising performances against this excellent English batting unit will surely enhance their stature in the international T20 circuit. Moreover, some insecurity is bound to creep into players as they sit outside for considerable period of times and other newbies exploit that opening to cement their spots in the side.

Bhuvneshwar and Chahar will be adamant to battle the odds and further reaffirm their credentials as efficient T20 bowlers. The two pacers might not have piercing, lethal pace. But they are smart operators with the new ball and are excellent bets in the death overs. They will be ever so keen to erase any apprehensions over their caliber, a difficulty that every top-class international sportsperson has to overcome at some point.

Lastly, the Indian team will have get in the groove quickly and adopt their roles as seamlessly as possible to defeat this supremely talented English side. Virat Kohli will be looking for the newer additions in the batting order to fire and showcase their spark in the international arena too. On the other hand, the older workhorses in the bowling unit will be tasked to regain their mojo as the team prepares for the mega home World T20.

Hence, there are several key objectives that the Indian team will have to address amidst focusing on gaining a positive eventual outcome of the series too.

Written by Tarkesh Jha. Follow Tarkesh on Twitter today.

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March 11, 2021 at 2:25 pm

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IND vs ENG T20Is 2021: 6 key players to watch

Debashish Sarangi

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March 10, 2021 at 10:50 pm

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IND vs ENG T20Is 2021: 6 key players to watch

IND vs ENG T20Is: 6 key players to watch | 6 key players to watch out for in the anticipated India vs England 2021 T20I series

Proving a majority of the cricket fans wrong, England started their tour of India with a bang by defeating the Indian team in the first Test in Chennai. But, unfortunately things got worse for them as the series progressed and India clinched the series by winning the rest three Tests comfortably.

Now, it’s time for some white-ball cricket as both of these great LOI sides are going to play a 5-match T20I series against each other. Several fresh faces are included in the squads of both the teams, which indicates that there will be some experiments prior to the T20 world cup. In this article, I am going to mention six players to watch out for in this series. Here we go.

Rishabh Pant

Rishabh Pant has all the abilities in the world to be a beast in the shortest format of the game, but somehow hasn’t been able to replicate his IPL success in international stage so far.

But, after performing brilliantly in the Australian tour, his confidence has gone up to a new level. He has shown a great sense of “match awareness” and played some gem knocks recently in Test cricket. His belief on his abilities is quite visible. In the absence of Sanju Samson and Manish Pandey, Pant is set to make his T20I return in the series against England. Looking at the kind of form he is in and the amount of confidence and self-belief he has right now, I really feel he will express himself to the utmost extent on the field this time and score some really crucial runs for India.

Dawid Malan

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The number-one ranked T20I batsman Dawid Malan is going to play against India for the very first time in his career.

Malan has been fabulous right from his debut. We have seen him stabilizing the innings superbly, coming after the fall of an early wicket several times in the recent T20Is played by the English team. In the most recent T20I series of England against South Africa, he smashed 173 runs at a splendid average of 86.50 and a brilliant strike rate of 161.68.

Overall, he has 5 centuries to his name in T20 cricket. He can hold one end and also has the ability to accelerate when he gets set. The way he paces his innings is brilliant. So, the English batting unit will definitely rely on its “MR. Consistent” to give a tough challenge to the Indian bowlers.

T Natarajan

He went to Australia as a net bowler, but ended up the tour as one of the biggest positives for India in recent times. Natarajan’s journey has been such an inspirational one so far. He impressed every one of us with his bowling skills in the death overs, particularly his ability to bowl yorkers consistently, as well as accurately.

In the 3 T20Is he played in Australia, Natarajan grabbed 6 wickets and had a phenomenal economy of 6.92. Now, he is going to face one of the best batting units in white-ball cricket. So, the challenge will be bigger. In the absence of Bumrah, the pressure on Natarajan at the death overs will be huge as well. I trust his skills as he has delivered in Australia in the absence of Bumrah. So, I expect good returns from him in this series and he will play a key role in keeping the English batsmen quiet.

Yuzvendra Chahal

Yuzvendra Chahal is the trump card of Indian bowling in white-ball cricket. Even in the last T20I series against Australia, he came as a concussion substitute for Ravindra Jadeja and played a key role in the victory of the Indian team in the first T20I by picking three crucial wickets. Chahal has picked 9 wickets from 6 T20I games against England at an economy of 7.38 (much better than his career economy). Also, his best figures of 6-25 came against the English team in the home series back in 2017.

We all know that Chahal is a very intelligent bowler and has the ability to bamboozle the batsmen with his minute variations. The Indian team will heavily rely on Chahal to pick wickets at crucial moments and his success rate will definitely play a key role in India’s overall performance with the ball in this series.

Jos Buttler

If you ask me who the biggest match-winner is in the current English side, my answer will be Jos Buttler.

The exploits of Buttler in white-ball cricket is known to everyone. Since Buttler has been given the chance to open the batting continuously from 2018, he has scored 482 runs from 13 innings at a very impressive average of 43.81 and a terrific SR of 155.98. So, it is evident that he has been enjoying his new role as an opener in T20Is.

His job will be to provide a blistering start on which the middle order and lower middle order batsmen can capitalize on. If he gets set, he can dominate the Indian spinners by unsettling them with his shots all around the park, especially the sweeps and reverse sweeps. So, India should look to get Jos Buttler’s wicket as quickly as possible.

Hardik Pandya

The performance of the Indian batting unit in the death overs depends largely on the performance of Hardik Pandya.

He smashed bowlers like Jofra Archer, Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje etc with ease in the IPL last year and carried his fabulous form into the Australian tour as well. He scored 210 runs at a bradmanesque average of 105 and a superb SR of 114.75 in the ODI series against Australia and was the man of the series in the T20I series that followed. Since IPL 2020, Hardik has scored 359 runs at an impressive average of 35.9 and a magnificent SR of 173.42 in T20 cricket.

It is quite evident from these facts that he has been in fabulous touch for quite a while now; has showed his calmness and maturity during pressure situations and I believe he will definitely play a crucial role in team India’s success in this t20I series.

So, these are my six players to watch out for in the upcoming T20I series between India and England. Have your say!

Written by Debashish Sarangi. Follow Debashish on Twitter today.

WI vs SL 1st ODI Dream11 Prediction Possible Playing 11 Pitch Report

Charbel Coorey

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March 10, 2021 at 6:23 pm

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After one of the most enthralling T20I series in recent memory, attention turns to an ODI series between two sides looking to make improvements in a format they have played little of in recent years. And, important ODI Super League points are up for grabs.

Both West Indies and Sri Lanka have been mostly involved in Test and T20I formats over the past 12 months, which makes this ODI series a battle of shaking off the rust. And, given how aggressive the batsmen looked to be in the T20Is, this series could be anything.

Sri Lanka’s last assignment was a year ago, where they swept West Indies 3-0 in home conditions. For the West Indies, they were taken apart 3-0 in Bangladesh earlier this year, but the side they’ll field today will be vastly different to the inexperienced one that toured the subcontinent.

To paint a picture of how little they’ve played, West Indies have played just 18 ODIs since the 2019 World Cup. Sri Lanka have played even less (8), so how quickly these teams hit their groove will be interesting to see.