India and Pakistan will sq. off in opposition to one another within the sixteenth match of the continuing ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2022 on the Melbourne Cricket Floor (MCG) on Sunday, October 23.
The thrill is sky excessive with the arch-rivals clashing for the third time within the 12 months, however the followers could possibly be in for heartache if the rain gods play spoilsport. Nonetheless, the 2 groups wouldn’t be fazed by the climate situations or the strain the competition brings. This might once more be a sport the place India’s batting prowess will likely be pitted in opposition to Pakistan’s bowling assault.
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Face to face
India gained: 8, Pakistan gained: 3 (contains India’s bowl-out win in 2007)
Pitch and Climate report
The pitch at MCG is a balanced one. It has one thing to supply for each batters and bowlers.
Probabilities of rain have been greater than 90 per cent on Thursday, however has now diminished to 70 per cent. “Cloudy. Excessive (70%) probability of showers, most probably within the late afternoon and night. The prospect of a thunderstorm within the northeast suburbs within the late afternoon and night. Winds southerly 15 to 25 km/h tending southeasterly 20 to 30 km/h within the night,” Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology was quoted as saying in a press launch.
Possible XIs
India: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin/Yuzvendra Chahal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel/Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh
Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Shan Masood, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Haider Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Asif Ali, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Shaheen Shah Afridi
Present kind:
India: LWWWW (final 5 accomplished T20Is, most up-to-date first)
Pakistan: WWLWW
*W- Win, L- Loss