Match Preview – IND vs IRE 8th Match, Group A, T20 World Cup

Game details
India vs Ireland
New York, 10.30am local time
Big picture – India in their part?
Less than peaceful conditions also bring Ireland into the game. Josh Little will be asked to do what other left-arm quicks have done against India in the past. Bowl full and try to get lbws and bowled, which if he can do that will be double help, because India is top in this world cup. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav – their top three batsmen – are likely to be Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Getting them out early may be half the job done.
It’s early days, but so far, aggressive behavior seems to be the key to victory in this elusive T20 World Cup. So watch Jasprit Bumrah hold his height back and prioritize untouchability first. And for Paul Stirling to answer the calculated risks of extending the powerplay. Kuldeep Yadav will make full use of his improved air speed by not giving up on the stumps. All of Ireland – especially the middle order of Harry Tector and Curtis Camper – will have to work together to keep him wickets. It will be difficult but that is what they want. Ireland lives for games like these, at times like these.
Form guide
India WWWWL (last five T20Is completed, most recent)
Ireland WWWLL
In the scene – Rishabh Pant and Harry Tector
Just wearing a sweater made him ugly. Imagine how it would feel there Rishabh Pant coming out to hit. Even without it, that’s the first step to getting back on the pitch for India in an official World Cup game at least. He might be in the headlines. Or he won’t. But the fact that he is back and able to play cricket at this level again after that car accident less than two years ago is huge. The game is lucky to still have him and his sixth appearance.
Team news: Dube possible, Jaiswal unlikely
Left-handed batting at the top of the order is a useful asset and in Yashasvi Jaiswal India have one of the best, but they may give that up in favor of another left-handed batsman with very different skills. Shivam Dube is likely to come into the middle and take the spinners. India’s bowling consists of a lot of variety but it centers on Bumrah and Kuldeep, players whose talent can dominate entire tournaments, let alone single matches.
India (probable): 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Suryakumar Yadav, 4 Shivam Dube, 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Arshdeep Singh, 10, Jasprit Bumrah 11 Mohammed Siraj
Ireland’s batting goes down to No. 8 and there is a reasonable separation between the power hitters and the shock absorbers. Andy Balbirnie and Lorcan Tucker have the potential to play both of those roles. Their bowling is full of seam but left-arm bowler George Dockrell can get an over or two against more orthodox batsmen in the Indian line-up.
Ireland (probable): 1 Andy Balbirnie, Paul Stirling (capt), 3 Lorcan Tucker (wk), 4 Harry Tector, 5 Curtis Campher, 6 George Dockrell, 7 Gareth Delany, 8 Mark Adair, 9 Barry McCarthy, 10 Craig Young, 11 Ben White
Tone and context: Mysterious
Math and trivia
Quotes
“Cricket is not one of the big sports [the USA]You don’t hear that kind of chaos here but hopefully once our games start and more Indian fans start coming in, you start to see that same excitement.”
Indian coach Rahul Dravid I hope the game will find a new market
“There’s such a great Irish roots in America, definitely in New York, so it would be great to get a good opportunity from the locals – a bit of green in the crowd to support us would be welcome.”
In Ireland George Dockrell hoping for some support on wednesday.
Alagappan Muthu is an associate editor at ESPNcricinfo
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