T20 WC: India-England will clash in the warm-up match, eyes will be on the opening, and Ashwin
The T20 World Cup 2021 has started with the match between Oman and Papua New Guinea. Now on Monday, the Indian team is going to play a warm-up match against England in Dubai. Through this match, Team India would like to improve their opening combination for the World Cup.
Sunil Shukla 
The T20 World Cup 2021 has started with the match between Oman and Papua New Guinea. Now on Monday, the Indian team is going to play a warm-up match against England in Dubai. Through this match, Team India would like to improve their opening combination for the World Cup. At the same time, eyes will also be on Hardik Pandya and Ravichandran Ashwin, who returned to the team after four years. This match will start at 7:30 pm Indian time.
After this, Team India will also play a practice match against Australia on Wednesday. In these two matches against England and Australia, the Indian team management would definitely like to give a chance to those players, whose place in the playing XI is not
confirmed.
Who is Rohit's opening partner?
For the T20 World Cup, it is almost certain that Rohit Sharma will open. In such a situation, Ishan Kishan or KL Rahul can be tried against England for Rohit's partner. In IPL 2021, KL Rahul was at number three in terms of scoring the most runs. Rahul scored 626 runs in 13 matches at an average of 62.60, which included six half-centuries. At the same time, Ishan Kishan also scored a stormy half-century in the last two matches for Mumbai Indians (MI) while opening.
Doubt persists about Hardik
All-rounder Hardik Pandya's bowling still remains a matter of discussion. Hardik did not bowl a single ball in the entire IPL season. In such a situation, it will be interesting to see whether Hardik Pandya bowls in warm-up matches or not. By the way, in IPL 2021, Hardik was a complete flop with the bat as well. During this, Hardik could score only 127 runs in 12 matches at a poor average of 14.11.
All eyes will be on Ashwin
Veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin will also be eyeing the warm-up match against England. Significantly, Ashwin played his last T20 match against West Indies in June 2017. 35-year-old Ashwin has so far taken 52 wickets in 46 T20 matches for India. During this, his best bowling performance has been four wickets for 8 runs. The spinner's performance was disappointing in the 14th season of the IPL, where he took only seven wickets.
Indian Squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma (Vice-Captain), KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (WK), Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami.
Reserve players: Shreyar Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Axar Patel
