Group A | Match No 12
Date: Jun 10, 2009
Time: 10:00 PM IST
TV Coverage: On Star Cricket in India
Venue: Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Playing Conditions
Weather: High: 15°C, Low: 8°C, Mostly Cloudy, Humidity: 94%
Teams Form
In chronological order from left to right
India: LWLLW
India has already qualified for the Super8. Although there is no significance of this match on the rest of the tournament but India would not like to give away this match. They will be looking to try out the bench and also give some rest to the members who have recently recovered from an injury.
Ireland: WWWNW
Ireland has already qualified for the Super8 and they have nothing to lose in this match. They have not lost any T20 International matches that they have played so far. However, 138 is the highest total that they have managed in any T20. Playing against the world champions could be the real test of their skills.
Team News
India
Sehwag has been ruled out of the tournament due to a shoulder injury. Dinesh Kartik gets a chance to replace him. India would be missing Sehwag in the Super8 where it faces stiffer competition from West Indies, England and South Africa.
Gautam and Rohit have been handling their job well at the top of the order and Dhoni need not worry about that. The middle order could be one thing where Dhoni would be using his own ideas deciding who goes in to bat. I would personally like to see Yusuf Pathan getting a free license today to hit the balls out of the ground.
Ireland
The heroes of the match against Bangladesh – O’Brien brothers to hold the key to the team’s performance. Niall O’Brien scored 40 off 25 balls in the early part of the innings while Kevin O’Brien scored 39 off 17 in the end confirming the win against Bangladesh.
Possible Eleven
Looks like Zaheer will be asked to rest in this game. Sehwag has been ruled out of the tournament and it is less likely that Dinesh will be available for today’s match.
Dhoni might give chance to Ravindra Jadeja and might try to play with only one specialist spinner.
India
- Gautam Gambhir
- Rohit Sharma
- Suresh Raina
- Yuvraj Singh
- MS Dhoni (capt./wk)
- Yusuf Pathan
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Harbhajan Singh /Pragyan Ojha
- Irfan Pathan
- Praveen Kumar / R P Singh
- Ishant Sharma