The Indian batting coach, Vikram Rathour has said that by the time by the end of the T20I series against England, the Indian team will know what team they are going to play in the T20 World Cup later this year. India and England will be locking horns with each other in a T20I series, scheduled to be commencing on Friday. All five T20Is will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The T20 World Cup is set to be played in October-November this year in India.

As per the quotes in ESPNCricinfo, Vikram Rathour said, “By the time we finish this series, we should know, ‘this is the team which is going to play the World Cup’. So hopefully that will happen in this series. I am already sure that there wouldn’t be too many changes anyway, because we are a pretty settled unit at the moment. But in case somebody loses form or somebody gets injured, as a batting unit you just want to get settled now.”

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When asked whether India should look to play in the same attacking manner as England, Rathour said: “You are looking to win a game. Batting first, at times, yeah. If the conditions are good you need to be looking to put a par score on board. As far as our T20 (batting) is concerned we have been doing that pretty consistently. I mean as far as we are winning games and we are putting par scores and chasing targets, I’m okay with whatever strike rates they are going at.”

The upcoming five-match T20I series against England will be serving as great practice for the Indian team ahead of the T20 World Cup which is slated to be played in October-November this year in India.

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Earlier, under the captaincy of Virat Kohli won the four-match Test series against England 3-1 to progress to the final of the World Test Championship. WTC final will be played between India and New Zealand from June 18-22 at the Ageas Bowl, Southampton.