Asia Cup 2023 News: The great match of Super-4 of Asia Cup 2023 between India and Bangladesh will be played in Colombo city of Sri Lanka on Friday, September 15 at 3 pm. Team India has already made it to the final of Asia Cup 2023.
Asia Cup 2023 News: The super-4 match of Asia Cup 2023 between India and Bangladesh will be played in Colombo city of Sri Lanka on Friday, September 15 at 3 pm. Team India has already made it to the final of Asia Cup 2023. In such a situation, Team India can try the players sitting on the bench in the last match of its Super 4 stage of Asia Cup 2023 against Bangladesh. The Indian team, which has secured a place in the final, would like to test its potential players against Bangladesh on Friday.
This destructive bowler will return to Team India’s playing 11
The Rohit Sharma-led team will think deeply whether to give maximum game time to its first-choice team or to give a chance to some of its potential players before the World Cup to be held on home soil next month. This question of workload management is especially important for bowlers.
Jasprit Bumrah has bowled only 12 overs so far in the Asia Cup, which includes five overs against Pakistan and seven against Sri Lanka. He did not even play against Nepal. Therefore, it will depend on Bumrah whether he wants to bowl in one more match or go directly for the final on September 17.
Bangladeshi batsmen will tremble with fear!
Whereas, Mohammad Siraj has bowled 19.2 overs and Hardik Pandya has bowled 18 overs in this tournament. These overs may not seem like many, but the humidity in Colombo is so high that the bowler loses a lot of energy, hence the team management would like to give a break to one of them. Talking in this context, if Shami takes the field in place of Siraj against Bangladesh, then it will not be a surprising decision. This will help the senior fast bowler to get some important ‘match time’ before the World Cup starting from October 5. This is also important because Shami is being used as a ‘back-up’ fast bowler to Bumrah, Siraj and Pandya.
This player is continuously flopping
But the decline in Axar Patel’s bowling graph will be a matter of concern for the ‘think tank’ because he is used as cover for Ravindra Jadeja. This left arm spinner is neither able to take wickets nor is able to control the run rate. Akshar has played seven ODIs this year and has been able to take only three wickets at an economy rate of six. He needs to improve his game and that too immediately. KL Rahul’s return to full fitness has reduced a lot of team management problems. He batted fluently while staying at the crease. After the match against Sri Lanka, Rahul spoke at length about the clarity given by the team management on his role that he would be India’s main wicketkeeper rather than a middle-order batsman.
Eyes on Shreyas Iyer’s fitness
Therefore, it can be assumed that Rahul will continue to fulfill his responsibility against Bangladesh also. But Shreyas Iyer’s fitness must be under watch as he could not play in the ‘Super Four’ match against Pakistan and Sri Lanka due to back stiffness. However, Iyer batted and bowled in the nets without any problem on Thursday, which is good news for the team. But if the team management wants to give some extra time to this Mumbai player to recover, then it can try one of the options between Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav.
Bangladesh will not get the services of Mushfiqur Rahim
Kishan has impressed in ODIs so far, but Suryakumar has not been able to do so well in this format. Despite this, Suryakumar is being seen as an important player of the Indian ODI team and the think tank would like to give him another chance. Talking about Bangladesh, they will not get the services of wicketkeeper batsman Mushfiqur Rahim in this match, due to whom Liton Das is expected to do the wicketkeeping. However, their captain Shakib Al Hasan has rejoined the team after spending time with his family.