After suffering back-to-back losses, Team India made a strong comeback by defeating Afghanistan by a margin of 66 runs, to clinch their first win in the tournament. Apart from winning their last two group games by a substantial margin, India will still need to depend on New Zealand’s defeat at the hands of Afghanistan or Namibia to fancy the chances of qualifying for the qualification chances, which seems unlikely.
For these permutations to come true, India needs nothing less than a miracle. On the other hand, Scotland has lost all of its 3 games so far. They were on the verge of defeating New Zealand in their previous outing but fell short of 16 runs in the end. India played against Afghanistan in Abu Dhabi and they ended up piling 210 for the loss of 2 wickets and eventually won the game.
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On the other hand, Scotland faced New Zealand in Dubai where they failed to chase down a score of 172 and ended up falling 16 runs short. India needs to win the game by a big margin to keep their semi-finals’ hopes alive. These two sides have never met before, and this will be the first encounter between them.
India
Hardik Pandya’s elbow was a cause of concern briefly for India in their previous outing but still managed to bowl a couple of overs. which meant that it wasn’t probably serious. Jasprit Bumrah is two wickets away from surpassing Yuzvendra Chahal as India’s leading wicket-taker in T20Is. Virat Kohli has won the toss only once in eight T20Is in 2021 and India was asked to bat first each of the seven times he lost the toss, he would like to witness a change of fortune on his birthday.
Probable XI: Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah
Scotland
Skipper Kyle Coetzer was not 100% sure of the availability of Josh Davey. If he remains unavailable, Scotland is unlikely make any changes to the XI that played against New Zealand.
Probable XI: George Munsey, Kyle Coetzer (c), Matthew Cross (wk), Richie Berrington, Calum MacLeod, Michael Leask, Chris Greaves, Mark Watt, Safyaan Sharif, Alasdair Evans, Bradley Wheal
Fantasy Suggestion #1:
Rishabh Pant, Calum MacLeod, George Munsey, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (c), Ravindra Jadeja, Michael Leask, Ravi Ashwin, Mohammed Shami (vc), Jasprit Bumrah, and Mark Watt
Fantasy Suggestion #2:
Rishabh Pant, Matt Cross, George Munsey, Virat Kohli (vc), KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Chris Greaves, Ravi Ashwin, Mohammed Shami (c), Jasprit Bumrah, and Safyaan Sharif
