Hello and welcome to the coverage of Match No. 18 of the T20 World Cup between India and Namibia at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi.
After a stuttering batting performance on a tacky Wankhede track in the opener against the USA, the Indian batting line-up would like to go all guns blazing on a Feroz Shah Kotla track that could be called a belter for quality teams.
And when it comes to quality, the defending champions are light years ahead of Namibia, which hardly looked up to scratch against fellow Associate nation the Netherlands at the same venue.
To be fair to India, the match against Namibia is more of an extended warm up tie where they would like to bat first and let the line-up get a good hit in the middle.
A third-string India A team had dismissed Namibia for less than a 100 in a warm-up tie before the tournament.
Injury concerns
All-rounder Washington Sundars return from an injury layoff boosts Indias squad depth, but they are dealing with a spite of injury concerns.
Jasprit Bumrah, who sat out of the opening match due to illness, is expected to play against Namibia, but Abhishek Sharma has not fully recovered tom a stomach issue.
Tilak Varma confirmed that Abhishek was discharged from the hospital, but India will make a decision on his availability closer to match day.
The team may choose to rest key players and give the reserves some game time.
Teams (from):
India: Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (Wicketkeeper), Ishan Kishan (Wicketkeeper), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd Siraj, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakravarthy, Rinku Singh.
Namibia: Gerhard Erasmus (Captain), Jan Balt, Zane Green (Wicketkeeper), Malan Kruger, Dylan Leicher, Lauren Steenkamp, Jan Frylinck, Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, William Myburgh, JJ Smit, Jack Brassel, Max Heingo, Bernard Scholtz, Ben Shikongo, Ruben Trumpelmann.
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