India has to win the World Cup, Day 23: Now the challenge of West Indies is in front of Suryakumar’s team.

Delhi: There is a huge reaction to Surya’s policy of trying his makeshift bowlers as captain and his decision to give away a lot of runs by giving the ball to Dubey, especially against Zimbabwe. The view of the team camp is that it was necessary to try Dubey to know whether he can bowl 1-2 overs when required against West Indies.

Now is the time to come out of the box of winning by scoring big against Zimbabwe and take the India vs West Indies match as a new and different challenge. If Team India again did not show discipline in the game and there was negligence in the game, then what they did in Chepauk does not matter. West Indies have played two matches in the ongoing T20 World Cup in Kolkata and won both. Note that those were matches played during the day whereas now the situation will be better. From the perspective of this experience, the first round will be in the name of Windies.

This match, despite not being a knockout, is a knockout, in which the winning team will qualify for the T20 World Cup semi-finals. Let us hope that the storm that hit Chepauk will not stop. India was eagerly waiting for such a batting beauty pitch and a changed line-up did the rest. The search for the right pitch took Team India to Mumbai, New Delhi, Colombo and then Ahmedabad and scores of 161, 209, 175 and 193 (all batting first) in the group matches, culminating in an embarrassing 111 all out against South Africa in their first Super 8 match.

Nobody knows what kind of pitch to expect at Eden Gardens, Kolkata? This pitch is now going to play the biggest role in India’s path to save the title. The score of 200 has been crossed twice in the last 5 matches in Kolkata, both times against Italy (Scotland and England). In their two group matches, West Indies scored 182 against Scotland and 165 against Italy but these matches were at 3 pm and 11 am at the Eden. Therefore, it is also worth noting that neither they nor the Indian team know the nature of the pitch in this stadium under flood lights. Therefore, this factor to some extent eliminates the advantage of him having already played in Kolkata. Well, the news is that Sourav Ganguly himself has taken interest in preparing the pitch and the pitch will help Team India.

Tilak Verma said that in the first over itself, we will get a good understanding of how much score can be scored on this pitch? The opener will give this message to the team dugout so that further strategy can be made. On the other hand, even in the 9-wicket loss to South Africa, it is not that West Indies did not show its competition. They were 83-7 within minutes of 31-1 but Jason Holder (No. 7) and Romario Shepherd (No. 9) held on and stitched a brilliant 89-run partnership for the eighth wicket as the team scored 176 runs. All the batsmen below played to increase the score.

Indications are coming from the team camp that Kuldeep Yadav may be included in the playing eleven against West Indies at Eden Gardens. Efforts are being made to fit Kuldeep Yadav into their plan as a second wrist-spin option along with Varun Chakraborty. Both were fielded against Pakistan in Colombo on a spin-friendly track and together they took three wickets for 31 runs in 6 overs. Now it remains to be seen how we can bring back Kuldeep without weakening the batting? So will you drop Arshdeep Singh? In the end, everything will be decided by what kind of track is available for the match and how we understand it. Here the answer to the factor that tried Shivam Dubey is found. Well, they are also causing loss to the team by throwing more no-balls.
The host team is not only the number 1 team but also the defending champion. The time has come to prove both these tags right. Indian fans are hoping for another perfect storm so that India plays the semi-finals. If India wants to win the World Cup, this is most important.

Fun Fact:

* The next two matches for Ishan Kishan, Abhishek and Samson are considered to be the most special of their career. Why? There is a lot of talk that one of these three will make room for Vaibhav.

* Darren Sammy did not reveal his cards to the West Indies team even 24 hours before the start of the match. They say, ‘When the time comes to know, you will know.’ Moti, Hosein and Chase can create problems for the Indian batsmen which they will not forget. ‘The real problem is that Indian batsmen do not know them.

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