India will face Canada in T20 World Cup clash on Saturday. (Photo-AFP)
New Delhi: India will take on Canada in their last match of the group stage at the Central Broward Park Stadium, Lauderhill, Florida. Rohit Sharma and Co. has already qualified for Super 8 of the tournament while Canada has been eliminated.
India defeated Ireland by 8 wickets in their first match of the campaign. After that, the Men in Blue defeated arch-rivals Pakistan by 6 runs in a low-scoring thriller and they defeated USA by 7 wickets in their third match of the group stage. India played all three games at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York where the pitch provided great assistance to the bowlers while batters struggled to score runs.
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will look to score some runs on the batting-friendly surface in Florida. Rishabh Pant is in sensational form and has been the leading run-scorer of Team India. Hardik Pandya and Arshdeep Singh are the joint-leading wicket-takers of the team. Canada lost their first match against USA but they defeated Ireland in their next match. Canada lost their third match of the group stage against Pakistan.
Venue: Central Broward Park Stadium, Lauderhill, Florida
Date and time: June 09, 8:00 PM IST, Toss – 7:30 PM IST
Live streaming and telecast: The live telecast of the T20 World Cup 2024 match between India and Canada will be available on the Star Sports network in India. The live-streaming of the match will be available on the Disney+ Hotstar app and website.
Wicket-keeper: Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Movva
Batters: Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Nicholas Kirton, Suryakumar Yadav
All-rounders: Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Dillon Heyliger
Bowlers: Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh
Captain: Rishabh Pant
Vice-captain: Arshdeep Singh
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh and Mohammed Siraj.
Canada: Aaron Johnson, Navneet Dhaliwal, Pargat Singh, Nicholas Kirton, Shreyas Movva (wk), Ravinderpal Singh, Saad Bin Zafar (c), Dillon Heyliger, Kaleem Sana, Junaid Siddiqui, Jeremy Gordon.
Rohit Sharma: The Indian captain is the leading run-scorer of the team at this venue. He scored 196 runs at an average of 49 with two half-centuries.
Arshdeep Singh: The pitch in Florida will provide some assistance to fast bowlers and Arshdeep Singh picked up 4 wickets in the last match against the USA and is in great form.
Rishabh Pant: The Indian wicket-keeper is back in the Indian colours after a long time and has scored crucial runs on the tough surface in New York and will look to continue the good form on Saturday.
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