Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra expects the spinners to once again do well in the second ODI between India and the West Indies. The second match will be played in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Saturday, July 29. However, the spinners picked up a total of 10 dismissals across the two innings in the first ODI at the same venue as well.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Chopra said: “The match is at the same venue as the last one. There is a lot of turn on the pitch and I feel it is going to remain the same. It’s a day ODI and dew is not an issue. There is some moisture in the pitch at the start but it turns throughout. So spinners to take 8+ wickets and I won’t be surprised if India goes with an additional spinner. My second prediction is that there will be at least three leg-before dismissals. Why am I saying that? I am not just throwing it randomly. When the ball is turning, the bowlers try to end the ball within the stumps very often.”
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Aakash Chopra added that India’s spinners bowl a straight line and that the West Indies’ Gudakesh Motie also follows a similar way as well. Notably, three of Kuldeep Yadav’s four victims in the first game were dismissed lbw. And, Suryakumar Yadav was the only Indian batter to be trapped in front of the wickets to Motie while attempting a sweep shot as well.
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“If India bat first, the top three will together score at least 150 runs. Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, that’s what I am thinking, if they bat they will together score 150 runs. I am once again saying India to win the match. It might just go down as a slightly easy prediction but I cannot say that India will lose,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
