The second T20I between India and visiting Pakistan cricket team is played at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad Friday afternoon today.
The first T20I at Bangalore saw fully charged opposing teams and a very aggressively supportive home crowd for the hosts India. However, despite the rising temperatures the visiting Pakistan team won the first T20I in a sensational hair raising finish. The winning sixer by Shoaib Malik with two ball remaining reminded many of the famous sixer of Javed Miandad at Sharjah many years ago.It is very much expected that the same charged atmsphere will be witnessed at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad Friday as it would be endeavour of the host India to equalise the two match-T20I series.
But the Indians will have to be careful of the long line of bowlers that Pakistan possess and may make their batsmen uncomfortable right infornt of their crowd.
At the same time, Pakistani batsmen will have to be very cautious of not losing quickies and not going back with ducks as did Kamran Akmal in the first T20I - and also Shahid Afridi who comes in Booming, but often leaves with ducks when he is expected to score sixes.
The likely opposing squads for Friday's T20I match are:
India
MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, P Awana, PP Chawla, AB Dinda, G Gambhir, RA Jadeja, V Kohli, B Kumar, AM Rahane, SK Raina, AT Rayudu, I Sharma, RG Sharma, Yuvraj Singh
Pakistan
Mohammad Hafeez*, Ahmed Shehzad, Asad Ali, Junaid Khan, Kamran Akmal†, Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Jamshed, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Akmal, Umar Amin, Umar Gul, Zulfiqar Babar
Umpires S Asnani and VA Kulkarni
The 2nd T20I is scheduled for Friday, 28 December at 17:00 local time and 11:30 GMT at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad.
If you are one of the fans located at different destination and miss the chance to visit the stadium to watch your favorite team, You can now watch the match live on your laptop or desktop computer, FREE, provided you have an internet connection, from the links given below:
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