Another T20 World Cup on the doorstep. Due to various reasons, this year’s T20 World Cup is being organized by the countries of America and the Caribbean Islands. USA hosts several big matches in the group stage where the wickets, conditions are unfamiliar to most of the teams.
The T20 World Series will begin on June 2 with the match between the United States and Canada.
Teams arrive in America with their best possible stars.
Former Indian captain Virat Kohli’s name will shine as the big star of this season. It is said that this may be the last World Cup for this cricketer. As a result, the supporters around him will have different enthusiasm.
Virat Kohli – the last time to beat Dan?
As a cricketer, Kohli has won almost everything except the league title and T20 World Cup in the Indian Premier League.
At the beginning of his career, he played in ODI World Cup, Champions Trophy in 2013. He played the T20 World Cup final in 2014 but did not win the title.
India lost to the West Indies in the 2016 T20 World Cup.
In 2021, under the leadership of Virat Kohli, India played the worst T20 World Cup in their history.
In 2022, India lost by 10 wickets against England in the semi-final.
From the 2007 World Cup winning team, only Rohit Sharma is in the current season.
2023 and 2024 are closely tied for Kohli, who has scored the highest runs in two tournaments in two consecutive years.
Among them, he became the best player of the 2023 World Cup and became the owner of the highest run in the IPL.
But both times his team India and Royal Challengers Bangalore missed out on the title.
Last year, Kohli became the first batsman in the history of ODI World Cup to cross 700 runs in one tournament, he scored more than 700 runs in IPL too.
But the title is still elusive, Kohli will want to get it this time.
Without Kohli, India’s eyes will be on Hardik Pandya, this all-rounder has lost form due to various controversies, he will want to forget the worst season of his IPL career on the T20 World Cup stage.
Rishabh Pant is returning to international cricket after a terrible accident.
Among the mercurial batting of T20 cricket, Jasprit Bumrah, who bowled at an economy rate of six and a half in the last IPL, will also have special attention.
Shaheen Shah Afridi – Can you paint New York?
India Pakistan match on June 9 in New York, and Shaheen Shah Afridi’s bowling against India’s top order has become a big talking point of India Pakistan matches since 2021.
As if the course of the match was decided in the middle of Shaheen’s first spell, the 2021 T20 World Cup saw Lokesh Rahul and Rohit Sharma return to the pavilion by 6 runs.
Shaheen has taken 91 international T20 wickets at an average of 20 and an economy rate of less than eight.
Since his debut, Shaheen Shah Afridi has been playing as one of the key cricketers of the Pakistan team, taking 8 wickets in the first match of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and directly entering the national team.
Although Shaheen has often been compared to fellow country legend Wasim Akram, analysts feel that he bears more resemblance to contemporary Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc, both of whom are taller and have similar skillsets.
At just 24 years of age, Shaheen has established himself as a big name in international cricket.
He has played the semi-final and final in two T20 World Cups in a row, but these two matches he will want to forget, in the semi-final against Australia in 2021, Pakistan’s defeat was confirmed by his over, in the final against England in 2022, Shaheen was injured on the field.
Apart from Shaheen, the Pakistan team will be eyeing Mohammad Amir and Imad Wasim, both of whom have returned from international cricket to play in the T20 World Cup.
Babar Azam is one of the best batsmen of the time.
Wanindu Hasaranga – Can you keep your stats?
Wanindu Hasaranga now joins Shakib Al Hasan as the top all-rounder in T20 cricket.
Hasaranga has become an important cricketer for Sri Lanka in white ball cricket in a very short time.
The leg-spinner is giving less than seven runs per over in T20 cricket so far. Sri Lanka’s success will depend a lot on Hasaranga’s performance in the World Cup.
Hasaranga’s batting average is just 15 in T20 Internationals, and his strike rate doesn’t exactly suit the lower order, at 130.
But he is capable of playing effective innings, he played two innings of 67 from 32 balls and 22 runs from 9 balls against Afghanistan in February this year.
However, Sri Lanka will have more confidence in the batsman’s batsmen.
He took 15 wickets in the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia.
Without Hasaranga, the Sri Lankan cricket team will have a special eye on Mathisa Pathirana, who will lead Sri Lanka’s fast bowling lineup if there are no physical issues.