Big picture – Last hurdle before World Cup
India WWWLWW (last five completed T20Is, most recent first)
In the spotlight – Mitchell Santner and Abhishek Sharma
India (probable): 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Sanju Samson (wk), 3 Suryakumar Yadav (capt.), 4 Ishan Kishan, 5 Hardik Pandya, 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Shivam Dube, 8 Harshit Rana/Axar Patel, 9 Arshdeep Singh, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Varun Chakravarthy
New Zealand (probable): 1 Tim Robinson, 2 Devon Conway (wk), 3 Rachin Ravindra, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Glenn Phillips, 6 Mark Chapman, 7 Mitchell Santner (capt.), 8 Kristian Clarke, 9 Michael Bracewell/ Ish Sodhi, 10 Kyle Jamieson/ Matt Henry, 11 Jacob Duffy
In the only T20I in Raipur so far, India successfully defended 174 by a margin of 20 runs against Australia in 2023. The last of the IPL matches that Raipur hosted was in 2016 so that won’t tell us anything about the conditions expected. For what it’s worth, chasing teams have won four and lost two in IPL matches in Raipur. The weather is pleasant.
- Nobody from a Full Member team has hit more T20I sixes than Abhishek Sharma since the last World Cup: 81. Sahibzada Farhan is a distant second with 47.
- Similarly, Varun Chakravarthy leads the wickets chart with 55 followed by Jacob Duffy at 44.
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