The Asia Cup 2022 series, which has raised the expectations of the fans, has started with a bang in the United Arab Emirates. In preparation for the T20 World Cup to be held in Australia soon, Afghanistan won the first match of the 20-over series with 6 teams participating to win the trophy. In that situation, there is global anticipation for the match between arch rivals India and Pakistan on August 28. Especially, 140 crore Indian fans are interested to see if India will give a proper response to Pakistan, who gave them a historic defeat for the first time in the World Cup in Dubai last year.
Pakistan fast bowler Saheen Afridi, who played a key role in the historic defeat last year, has withdrawn due to injury this time, which is seen as a setback for the team and a huge advantage for India. Because there is no other left-arm fast bowler apart from him in Pakistan, there has been no change in Indian batsmen stumbling towards left-arm fast bowlers like him. Because India’s top-order batting, which fell short of left-arm pacer Mohammad Amir in the 2017 Champions Trophy, was left-arm pacer Reece Tapley in the recent ODI series on England tour.
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Reality and Truth:
That way if a left-handed bowler swings the new ball in the power play overs with good pace and bounce, there is a 90% chance that the Indian top order consisting of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and KL Rahul will be a box-snake. Moreover, the world knows that Virat Kohli, the world-class batting line-up of the current Indian team, is suffering from modest form.
Also, KL Rahul, who played only in the IPL series, has not played any T20I for India this year. After being sidelined for a few months with an injury after the IPL series, he was barely active in the recently concluded Zimbabwe series. Similarly, captain Rohit Sharma, who did not even score a half-century for the first time in the history of the IPL series, is also in poor form.
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Jadeja worries:
Overall, the middle order with players like Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya and Dinesh Karthik are strong and in good form. Former Indian player Ajay Jadeja has expressed concern that the current Indian batting is worse than the last T20 World Cup. Here’s what he talked about in a recent interview ahead of the Asia Cup. “Indian batting this time is worse than last T20 World Cup. KL Rahul has not played many matches due to injury. He recovered and tried in the Zimbabwe series but didn’t score a lot of runs.”
“Virat Kohli never played consistently. Rohit Sharma was also in good form last year. However, Suryakumar Yadav does a great job. At present he is the only one who has played consistently and is in good form. The only concern I have is that we want the current players to play a brand of cricket unknown to our previous best players. This means that the best players in the current Indian team are not aggressive players. They are consistently solid. But we don’t want them to play like that.”
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Ajay Jadeja, who is worried that the current players are not playing aggressively in major matches with huge pressure like Pakistan, said that the lack of consistency of key players in recent times is also causing setbacks for the Indian batting department.
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