NAGPUR: The 45,000-strong turnout expected at the Jamtha cricket stadium near here and Indian cricket fans everywhere else will hope that Jasprit Bumrah will be able to block out the gloomy weather and lift the mood after the loss at Mohali.
Bumrah's return will see local player Umesh Yadav missing out but with less than a month to go to the World Cup, such sentiments will have no say in selection. "Jasprit Bumrah is absolutely ready. Nothing to worry," teammate Suryakumar Yadav told reporters on Thursday.
Having a score of 208 bested by the opposition can be demoralising for the bowlers.
even on the most unresponsive of tracks. In T20, bowlers can induce false strokes through quality defensive bowling. But in Mohali and the Asia Cup, India's bowlers were unable to force the issue enough or check the scoring rate. Their bowling woes have not been restricted to the death overs, where the numbers clearly do not stack up. In the absence of an enforcer, the middle overs, too, remain a concern. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Harshal Patel had a particularly bad game in Mohali, their collective returns reading 8-0-101-0.
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