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Shami replaces Bumrah, India ask Nepal to bat

Toss India choose to bowl vs Nepal

India captain Rohit Sharma gained the toss and selected bowl in opposition to Nepal in what was the primary worldwide recreation between the 2 groups, in wet Pallekele. Just when Rohit introduced his determination to insert Nepal, the drizzle returned. It had additionally rained on the eve of the sport, forcing Nepal’s gamers to coach indoors.

The rain could possibly be a continuing all through this recreation and all through the match, with the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) contemplating shifting matches within the Super Four stage away from Colombo, which has additionally had heavy rain up to now few days.
India have been with out their premier quick bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who has returned dwelling for the start of his first baby. He will doubtless rejoin the facet for the Super Four spherical. Bumrah’s absence opened up a spot for Mohammed Shami, who shall be in motion in his first ODI since March, when India misplaced a uncommon bilateral sequence at dwelling, in opposition to Australia. This may also be Shami’s first white-ball recreation because the IPL last in May.

Rohit Paudel, who was captaining Nepal two days after his twenty first birthday in opposition to India’s superstars, known as this the “biggest day” for Nepal cricket. They additionally made one change, with Bhim Sharki changing Aarif Sheikh. Sharki was additionally a part of the Nepal facet that had toured the island for the boys’s Emerging Asia Cup in July earlier this yr.

This recreation shall be performed on the identical pitch that had been used for India-Pakistan, which was washed out. After rain had denied India’s bowlers a crack at Pakistan’s line-up on Saturday, they’ll look to get a strong exercise in opposition to Nepal.
India will progress to the Super Fours spherical in the event that they win on Monday and even one other washout will suffice.

India: 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 Ishan Kishan (wk), 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Shardul Thakur, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Mohammed Shami, 11 Mohammed Siraj

Nepal: 1 Kushal Bhurtel, 2 Aasif Sheikh (wk), 3 Rohit Paudel (capt), 4 Bhim Sharki, 5 Sompal Kami, 6 Dipendra Singh Airee, 7 Gulsan Jha, 8 Kushal Malla, 9 Karan KC, 10 Sandeep Lamichhane, 11 Lalit Rajbanshi

Source web site: www.espncricinfo.com

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