New Delhi: Preparations for the T20 series against South Africa have started on India’s home ground from June 9. South Africa’s team has reached India and soon the Indian team will also gather in Delhi. The first match is also important for India because if Team India wins this match, then it will make a world record of winning 13 consecutive T20 matches. However, both the teams can get a challenge from the pitch. Let’s know what can be the mood of the pitch?
Toss factor in T20
Here the team winning the toss decides to bowl, so that the batting team can chase down the score by limiting the low score. Here the spin bowlers get help from the pitch. The team that bowled first has won 3 out of the last 5 T20 matches here. While the team that came to bat first could win only two matches.
Indian team has lost the last match
Here India’s last T20 match was played against Bangladesh. Batting first, the Indian team scored 148 for 6 wickets, in response Bangladesh won the match for 3 wickets in 19.3 overs. So in this match if Indian team wins the toss, then it should choose to bowl.
India has scored the most runs
Although it is considered a low scoring pitch for International T20, but the Indian team has flagged here. In November 2017 against New Zealand, Team India had scored 202 runs while batting first. Shikhar Dhawan scored 80 runs in 52 balls in this match. Chasing the target, the Kiwi team was out for 149 runs. Rohit Sharma’s bat was also very thunderous in it. He contributed 80 runs. This is the home ground of Shikhar Dhawan. There is neither Shikhar Dhawan nor Rohit Sharma in Team India. The special thing is that KL Rahul has a poor record on this ground. KL was dismissed after scoring just 15 runs against Bangladesh.
Last 5 T20 matches, average score of both the innings
T20 match 1st innings average score – 158.8 runs
T20 match second innings average score – 149 runs
The difference between the average scores of both the T20 innings is just 10 runs.
first published:June 4, 2022, 3:55 pm