Rajkot hosts the third T20I between India and England on Tuesday, January 28. India are leading the series 2-0 courtesy of their wins in the first two games. They won the first T20I in Kolkata by seven wickets and the second T20I in Chennai by two wickets.
The Chennai T20I was a thriller of a contest with Tilak Varma playing a brilliant knock to take India home. He scored an unbeaten 72 off 55 balls after India lost five wickets in the first half to take the side home. His finishing skills as a batter was on show in that particular game.
Meanwhile, England have named the same XI that played in Chennai for the third T20I in Rajkot. They need to win this game to keep the series alive. A loss in Rajkot would see them lose the series. They have lost three out of the last five T20Is against India.
Playing the Indian spinner has been a real struggle for the England batters so far in this series. Barring Jos Buttler none of the other batters have been able to pick them. Varun Chakravarthy especially has been unplayable with five wickets from two games so far.
IND vs ENG 3rd T20I Pitch Report
The pitch at the Niranjan Shah Stadium is a batting-friendly wicket. We can expect a high-scoring game at this venue. The ball comes onto the bat nicely as its a flat deck and not much movement for the pacers. It will spin more so in the second half of the game. The team winning the toss should prefer chasing at the venue. 190 is the average score batting first and the highest score posted batting first is 228. The highest score chased at this venue has been 202. We should be in for a thrilling high-scoring game in Rajkot.
IND vs ENG 3rd T20I Weather Updates
The match starts from 7 pm IST with the toss taking place 30 minutes earlier. The weather conditions in the evening will be mainly clear with the temperatures around 21 degrees. Humidity will be just 20 percent with good overall conditions for cricket. How much dew will be present on the outfield will be an interesting observation.
IND vs ENG Squads
India Squad:Suryakumar Yadav (C), Axar Patel (VC), Sanju Samson (WK), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammad Shami, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Shivam Dube, Ramandeep Singh.
England Squad: Jos Buttler (captain), Harry Brook, Ben Duckett, Phil Salt (wicketkeeper), Jamie Smith (wicketkeeper), Jacob Bethell, Brydon Carse, Liam Livingstone, Jamie Overton, Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Saqib Mahmood, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood.
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