Dubai, Sep 10
India have included Sanju Samson and Kuldeep Yadav in their playing eleven as captain Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and elected to bowl first against UAE in the Men's T20 Asia Cup Group A game at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.
India have also picked Kuldeep ahead of the likes of Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana, with an eye to exploit the spin-favouring conditions in Dubai, with Jasprit Bumrah, Shivam Dube and Hardik Pandya to handle fast-bowling duties. “Looks a nice fresh wicket. Humid also today, might be dew later. If we get an opportunity, we're flexible to do anything but today we want to bowl.”
Playing XIs
India: Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy and Jasprit Bumrah
UAE: Muhammad Waseem (captain), Muhammad Zohaib, Asif Khan, Alishan Sharafu, Rahul Chopra, Dhruv Parashar, Haider Ali, Muhammad Rohid, Harshit Kaushik, Junaid Siddique and Simranjeet Singh