Live Cricket Score India vs West Indies, ICC T20 World Cup 2016 IND vs WI, 2nd semi-final Match at Mumbai: West Indies win toss, elect to bowl first
Whoever wins this semi-final between India and West Indies will make it to the ICC T20 World Cup 2016 final against England at Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live blog of the second semi-final of ICC T20 World Cup 2016 between India and West Indies at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday. I amKaustubh S. Mayekar, and I will bring you all the live updates and scores from this match. Whoever wins this match will make it to the final against England at Eden Gardens on Sunday. West Indies and India have never met in a World Cup semi-final of any format, having last met in a World Cup knockout match in the 1983 World Cup final which India famously won. FULL SCORECARD: India vs West Indies, 2nd Semi-Final match at Mumbai
TOSS UPDATE: West Indies win toss and elect to bowl first.
India perhaps go in with the slight advantage, but both teams are overly reliant on a single player. Virat Kohli for India, and Chris Gayle for West Indies. Interestingly, both Kohli and Gayle play for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in Indian Premier League (IPL) so each will have some insight into how and what to bowl to the other. Kohli has been in spectacular form so far in the World T20 2016. He was the leading run-scorer of the Super-10 stage till Joe Root went past him in the first semi-final. The two batsmen could face off in the final if India manage to win this match.READ: Virat Kohli’s top 5 T20I chases
India have a better bowling attack and boast of a stronger batting line-up on paper as well. However, their batsmen have not been in great form in this tournament so far, barring Kohli and to an extent MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh. Unfortunately, Yuraj has been ruled out of the remainder of the tournament with an injury. Manish Pandey has been named as his replacement. Whether or not Pandey will replace Yuvraj in the line-up remains to be seen. Ajinkya Rahane and Pawan Negi are the other likely options to replace Yuvraj. READ: Yuvraj Singh injury: Should Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Harbhajan Singh, Pawan Negi, or Mohammed Shami replace him for semi-final against West Indies?
Squads:
India: MS Dhoni (c & wk), Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Hardik Pandya, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Manish Pandey, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Mohammed Shami, Pawan Negi, Ashish Nehra.
West Indies: Darren Sammy (c), Samuel Badree, Sulieman Benn, Carlos Brathwaite, Dwayne Bravo, Johnson Charles, Andre Fletcher, Chris Gayle, Jason Holder, Ashley Nurse, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor, Evin Lewis.
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