Pitch report of India-Pakistan match
The pitch of Colombo’s R Premadasa Stadium is considered very favorable for spinners. Spinners get a lot of help here. The same is being seen in this T20 World Cup also. Spinners are getting more help. Batsmen need to bat carefully here. If the field is big then it will not be easy to hit fours and sixes. The target of 160 to 180 runs will be challenging here. Zimbabwe had recently defeated Australia by 23 runs in a big upset on the same ground. Zimbabwe had defended the target of 170 runs.
A total of 62 T20 matches have been played so far at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Out of these, the team batting first has won 26 matches and the team batting second has won 35 matches. According to statistics, whoever wins the toss between India and Pakistan can look to bowl first. Here the average score of the first innings in T20 is 143 runs.
Both the teams for the match are as follows-
India: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Ishan Kishan, Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Varun Chakraborty.
Pakistan: Salman Ali Aga (captain), Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Khawaja Mohammad Nafe (wicketkeeper), Mohammad Nawaz, Salman Mirza, Naseem Shah, Sahibzada Farhan (wicketkeeper), Saeem Ayub, Shaheen Afridi, Shadab Khan, Usman Khan, Usman Tariq.
