IND vs AFG: Team India won three matches in the group stage and one match was cancelled due to rain. Now in the Super 8, Rohit’s army has to play its first match against Afghanistan. In this match, a dangerous player can enter the playing 11 of Team India.
In the T20 World Cup 2024, Team India has to play its first Super 8 match on 20 June. This match is to be held against Afghanistan team in Barbados. Changes in Team India’s playing 11 are considered possible in this match. Virat Kohli has been a flop in opening, so it is believed that he will now be seen batting at favorite number three, while Rohit Sharma’s opening partner may change. A lot of runs are scored in Barbados, so young batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal may enter the playing 11.
Yashasvi Jaiswal has full chance of getting a chance in the playing 11 in the first match of Super 8, because Virat Kohli has flopped in all three matches as an opener. With Yashasvi’s arrival, Team India will also get a left and right combination. The Indian opening pair has disappointed in this World Cup. In such a situation, it is believed that the captain can give a chance to Yashasvi.
How can Yashasvi Jaiswal prove to be the X-factor?
Yashasvi Jaiswal is a left-handed batsman who tries to hit fours and sixes from the first ball. He can change the course of the game by adopting an aggressive style in the first 6 overs. Not only this, he can spoil the line length of that Afghan bowler who has troubled the right-handed batsmen a lot this season. The name of this bowler is Fazalhaq Farooqi, who has taken the most 12 wickets in 4 matches so far.
Yashasvi Jaiswal will counter Fazalhaq Farooqui
If Yashasvi opens for Team India, he will be a counter to Fazalhaq Farooqi, because till now Fazalhaq has bowled brilliantly, whereas Virat gets trapped against left-handed batsmen. He has been trapped in the net of America’s left-arm fast bowler Sourav Netravalkar. In such a situation, it is important to have Yashasvi in front of a left-arm bowler, who can spoil the line length of Fazalhaq. There is full hope that Team India will get the benefit of this.
T20 career of Yashasvi Jaiswal
Yashasvi Jaiswal is the discovery of IPL. This player has played amazing cricket in the last 2 years. Jaiswal has been scoring runs continuously. Talking about his statistics in T20, so far he has scored 1607 runs in 52 matches at an average of 32.14. 2 centuries and 9 fifties have also come from his bat. The special thing is that Jaiswal has scored these runs at a strike rate of 150.61, which is considered very good in T20.
Probable playing 11 of team India
Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh.