IND VS NZ 2nd T20: India won the toss and chose bowling, Akshar and Bumrah will not play today

Raipur. India won the toss and decided to bowl first in the second T20 match against New Zealand on Friday. Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav, after winning the toss, said that dew is still present and his team has not chased much in recent times, so he wants to bowl first.

Suryakumar said that his team will try to repeat the performance. There are two changes in India, Axar Patel and Jasprit Bumrah are not playing, Harshit Rana and Kuldeep Yadav have been included in their place. New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner said that he too would have bowled first.

New Zealand have three changes, with Tim Seifert replacing Robinson and Matt Henry replacing Kyle Jameson. Christian Clarke is also out and Zak Fox has been included in his place.

Teams:
India: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), 3 Ishan Kishan, 4 Suryakumar Yadav (captain), 5 Hardik Pandya, 6 Shivam Dubey, 7 Rinku Singh, 8 Harshit Rana, 9 Arshdeep Singh, 10 Kuldeep Yadav, 11 Varun Chakraborty.

New Zealand: 1 Tim Seifert, 2 Devon Conway (wk), 3 Rachin Ravindra, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Glenn Phillips, 6 Mark Chapman, 7 Mitchell Santner (c), 8 Zak Fox 9 Matt Henry, 10 Ish Sodhi, 11 Jacob Duffy Raj.