India are leading 1-0 in the five-match T20I series against West Indies. The men in blue will aim to win all the upcoming matches and seal the series win.
Ahead of the second T20I, BCCI announced the exclusion of star player Harshal Patel due to injury.
“Hershal Patel has a rib injury and is unavailable for selection for the 2nd and 3rd T20Is. He is being monitored by the BCCI medical team,” the BCCI tweeted.
Earlier in the match played with a delay of 3 hours, West Indies won the toss and decided to bowl first.
“It was very enjoyable for us, the way we played the first game. We stuck to our plans and executed them really well. This is another chance for us and we want to repeat what we did in the first game. We want players to be able to bat anywhere and not want them to bat in specific positions.” Rohit Sharma said during the toss
“We want people to be flexible, depending on some players there are two ways to look at it. We probably read the pitch well in the first game and thought that as a team we had the right call to go with three spinners. Did it. Dimensions are different here and want to bring in an extra seamer here. Bishnoi unfortunately missed and Avesh Khan came in. It’s unfortunate that he missed but we will try whatever we can from a team perspective. are.”
full squad –
West Indies: Kyle Meyers, Brandon King, Nicholas Pooran, Rovman Powell, Shimron HetmyerDevon Thomas, Jason HolderAkil Hossein, Odeon Smith, Alzarri Joseph, Obed McCoy, Shamrah Brooks, Keemo Paul, Hayden Walsh, Romario Shepherd, Dominic Drakes
India: Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh KarthikRavichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar KumarAvesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Harshal Patel, Axar Patel, Deepak Hooda, Ishaan Kishan, Kuldeep YadavSanju Samson