Within the T20 WC, India and Pakistan are in Group A together with Eire, Canada and USA. Pakistan will begin its marketing campaign in opposition to USA on June 6. The Staff India captain was lately a part of a video the place Adidas unveiled the group’s new jersey. Within the video, Rohit, Ravindra Jadeja and extra have been featured as they reacted to the brand new jersey for the upcoming World Cup.
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India’s arch-rivals, Pakistan captain Babar Azam mentioned the group might be planning their ways in opposition to star India batter Virat Kohli for the high-octane conflict with Males in Blue within the ICC T20 World Cup at West Indies/USA this 12 months.
Babar made this assertion forward of his facet’s T20I collection in opposition to Eire from March 10 onwards, which consists of three T20Is to be performed in Dublin. The highly-anticipated conflict between two arch-rivals will happen on June 9 in New York.
Over the last T20 Cup conflict between these two sides again in 2022, Virat performed one of the iconic knocks within the format, scoring 82* in simply 53 balls, with six fours and 4 sixes throughout a tense run-chase of 160 runs when India was 31/4 at one level.
Talking on the media convention on Monday, Babar mentioned that although the group doesn’t plan in opposition to one explicit participant, however they are going to be planning in opposition to Virat, who he referred to as as “top-of-the-line gamers.”
“As a group, you all the time plan in opposition to completely different groups and in line with their strengths. We don’t plan something in opposition to one participant. We plan for all 11 gamers. We have no idea a lot in regards to the circumstances in New York and we are going to plan accordingly. He [Virat Kohli] is without doubt one of the greatest gamers and we are going to plan in opposition to him as properly,” he mentioned.
Virat has an distinctive document in opposition to Pakistan in T20Is. In 10 matches, he has scored 488 runs at a median of 81.33 and a strike fee of over 123, with 5 half-centuries. His greatest rating is 82*.