Speaking ahead of the clash, New Zealand's Glenn Phillips heaped praise on Team India's premier bowler Jasprit Bumrah by saying that he is a fantastic bowler
Glenn Phillips (Pic: File Pic)
New Zealand is all set to lock horns with Team India in the title clash of the T20 World Cup 2026. The match is scheduled to be played on March 8 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Speaking ahead of the clash, New Zealand's Glenn Phillips heaped praise on Team India's premier bowler Jasprit Bumrah by saying that he is a fantastic bowler. He also stated that Bumrah is a human as well and is allowed to have a bad day.
"We had a really good trip against him in the bilateral series as well. But he's a class bowler. Bumrah is a fantastic bowler. He's got so many variations. He hits the block hole at the death overs incredibly well. He is human as well. He is allowed to have a bad day, as are the rest of us. So hopefully, we have a good day against him," he said.
"But that also means that if he does bowl well, we do have to, I guess, accommodate for other things and adapt on the fly," added Phillips.
Ahead of the match, the cricket fans will keep a tab on Team India's in-form wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson. In the previous two innings, the right-handed batsman delivered big knocks for the "Men in Blue". In the clash against the West Indies, Samson smashed an unbeaten 97 runs off 50 deliveries, laced with 12 boundaries and four maximums. Later in the contest against England, the Kerala-born cricketer accumulated 89 runs in 42 balls, with the help of eight boundaries and seven maximums.
On the other hand, the "Black Caps" will also expect their opening batsman, Tim Seifert, to replicate his knock from the previous match. In the clash against South Africa, he registered an unbeaten 100 runs off 33 balls, including 10 boundaries and eight maximums.
T20 World Cup 2026, IND vs NZ: Full Squads
India: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Sanju Samson (WK), Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Ishan Kishan (WK), Rinku Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Abhishek Sharma, Varun Chakaravarthy, Arshdeep Singh, Tilak Varma.
New Zealand: James Neesham, Devon Conway (WK), Cole McConchie, Daryl Mitchell, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy, Mitchell Santner (C), Mark Chapman, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson, Kyle Jamieson, Tim Seifert (WK), Glenn Phillips, Finn Allen, Rachin Ravindra.
(With ANI Inputs)
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