India captain Rohit Sharma received the toss and opted to bat towards Bangladesh of their ICC Males’s T20 World Cup warm-up match on the Nassau County Worldwide Cricket Stadium in New York on Saturday whereas additionally confirming that Virat Kohli missed out on a spot within the staff for the one observe sport earlier than the showpiece occasion. The match gives India with a superb alternative to observe in situations much like these by which they’ll play three league video games towards Eire, Pakistan, and the US.

Coming off a scratchy collection defeat to the USA, Najmul Hossain Shanto’s aspect will probably be determined to place the items of a successful plan collectively, whereas it is a important, sole warm-up hitout for an India aspect craving to elevate the T20 World Cup trophy on June 29. 

Talking on the time of toss, Rohit defined the explanation behind Virat’s absence whereas revealing that everybody else remained out there. He stated: “We are going to bat. Not for any explicit purpose, situations right here look a bit difficult. Virat has simply arrived yesterday, he will miss out, the remainder are all out there and we’ll see learn how to use them. We arrived fairly early, so the physique clock has adjusted, we simply need to see how properly we are able to modify to those situations.”

Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto stated, “We’d have bowled, we’ll have to regulate the situations and I wish to understand how the bowlers do. The boys have loved themselves up to now right here, we’re going to play with 13 gamers – Taskin and Mustafizur have been rested.”

India enjoying XI: Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal.

Bangladesh enjoying XI: Litton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Najmul Hossain Shanto(c), Towhid Hridoy, Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali(w), Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam, Tanzid Hasan, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Tanvir Islam.

With ANI inputs