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ASIA CUP T20I

Team India packed with young and

talented players as Men in Blue begin their

campaign on September 10

India will play their last league match against the UAE on Sept. 19. The Super Four stage will start on Sept. 20

OUR BUREAU
Mumbai

eam India looks like a formidable unit head-
ing into the Asia Cup T20I edition, with
Ta solid top-order, an aggressive skipper in
Suryakumar Yadav and a variety of all-round op-
tions that could assist the frontline bowling, which
has got the Jasprit Bumrah-sized booster.
Team India’s quest for Asian supremacy will
start from September 10 against the UAE, with the
hotly anticipated India-Pakistan clash taking place
on September 14. India will play their last league
match against the UAE on September 19. The Su-
per Four stage will start on September 20.
Ahead of the competition, let us have a look
at some top performers for India ever since the
T20 World Cup win:

ABHISHEK SHARMA:
Perhaps the most exciting player that one
could get to witness during this tournament. While
inconsistency is a negative of his high-risk, high-re-
ward style, Abhishek when on song, is leagues
apart from many of his modern day T20I contem-
poraries. His game is extremely dominant against
spin, and he is slowly catching up with pace as well.
In 17 T20Is, he has scored 535 runs at an average Hardik Pandya, the Indian All-rounder, is in sensational form (ANI)
of 33.43, with a strike rate of 193.84, with two cen-
turies and two fifties. His best score is 135. In the TILAK VARMA: year and is on one brilliant redemption arc so far
T20I series against England, India’s last before Since his return to T20Is, Tilak has sealed his after his poor shows in the T20 WC 2021. In 12
the Asia Cup, he top scored with 279 runs in five spot as India’s number three, having the game matches, he has taken 31 wickets at an average of
matches at an average of 55.80 and a strike rate of style for every situation. Be it holding the other 11.25, with an economy rate of 8.9 and best figures
219.68. His useful spin bowling also is a plus.
end steady or blasting off right from ball one, Ti- of 5/17. He has taken two five-wicket hauls.
lak knows it all. In nine T20Is, he has made 413
SANJU SAMSON runs at an average of 82.60, with two centuries and RAVI BISHNOI:
After years of inconsistency and laying waste a six. His best score is 120*. Both of these centuries
While he is not a part of the Asia Cup squad,
down the order, Samson found a new lease of life came away from home in South Africa last year. Bishnoi was still nonetheless instrumental in In-
as an opener, having scored 487 runs in 17 matches dia’s dominance in T20Is after the T20 WC win,
and 16 innings at an average of 171.47, with three HARDIK PANDYA: with 25 wickets in 18 matches at an average of
centuries and a fifty. During the series against Ban- The all-rounder is in sensational form, having 19.16, with best figures of 4/13. He also maintained
gladesh and South Africa, he scored three of these made 320 runs in 13 innings at an average of 35.55, a solid economy rate of 7.14.
tons within five innings. While he showed some with a half-century to his name and runs coming at
struggles against short ball in the England T20Is a strike rate of 145.45. With the ball, he has taken 10
and could make just 51 runs in five innings, he has wickets at an average of 34.40, with best figures of 2/23. ARSHDEEP SINGH:
displayed excellence in the Kerala Cricket League The left-arm pacer is a symbol of consistency,
recently, with 368 runs in five matches at an aver- having troubled batters with his line and length and
age of 73.60, a strike rate of 186.80, with a centu- VARUN CHAKRAVARTHY: swing. In 11 matches, he managed to get 20 wick-
ry and three fifties. He fired a total 30 sixes within The leg-spinner has troubled batters with his ets at an average of 15.15, with best figures of 3/14,
these five innings. spin trap ever since his international return last while maintaining an economy rate of 7.87. (ANI)

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