ICC Twenty20 World Cup | Pakistan wins toss; elects to bowl against India
The Hindu
India has won all the 12 matches against Pakistan in the World Cup games.
Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and decided to bowl first in the ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2021 Group 2 match against India in Dubai on Sunday.
Varun Chakravarthy makes his World Cup debut in the all important match. India left out Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Rahul Chahar and Ishan Kishan.
Pakistan has left out Haider Ali from the playing XI.
Unlike most of the Olympic-bound athletes, who opt to train abroad before the big event, boxer Amit Panghal prefers training in home conditions prior to Paris 2024. A former World championships silver medallist and a World No. 1, Panghal won the 51kg quota place in the only chance he got. He wants to follow his own plans to script success in Paris.
The other men’s semifinal Friday is Norway’s Casper Ruud, twice the runner-up in Paris — to Rafael Nadal in 2022 and to Novak Djokovic in 2023 — against Germany’s Alexander Zverev, a finalist at the 2020 U.S. Open, an Olympic gold medalist and into the final four at Roland Garros for the fourth consecutive year.