T20 World Cup | Kohli's hour of reckoning as India faces New Zealand in 'virtual quarter-final'
The Hindu
It won’t be easy against a quality New Zealand, which will come hard at India having also lost to Pakistan in their opening game
Virat Kohli will be facing the most defining test of his captaincy career as he expects his men to be the proverbial "phoenix rising from the ashes" when India takes on a street-smart New Zealand in a 'do-or-die' ICC T20 World Cup Super 12 game in Dubai on Sunday.
Having endured a nightmare last Sunday against Pakistan, a match that they would like to forget in a hurry, India has a lot of course correction to do against the Kiwis, more so in getting the roles assigned for the players right.
It won’t be easy against a quality New Zealand, which will come hard at India having also lost to Pakistan in their opening game. Tim Southee and Trent Boult, especially have been a nemesis for the Indians in big games.
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.