India eye clean sweep as they take on Ireland in the second and final T20I
Date and Time : 29th June 2018, 8:30 PM IST
Venue : The Village, Dublin
India already lead the series 1-0 after the splendid performance on Wednesday but will look to continue the winning trend. They completely dominated the game with both the bat and the bowl.
The openers will be asked of another similar performance. But India shouldn’t be complacent as Ireland are very capable of causing an upset. They just have to play their normal game.
On the other hand, Ireland are a better side than they showed two days ago. It goes without saying that they will need to raise their game on Friday if they are to compete with juggernauts India.
Ireland didn’t bowl well and that is one aspect they will have to improve upon. Batting also failed and that’s why they didn’t even reach close to the target.
India and Ireland have so far played a couple of T20I’s, which India have won.
Team news and possible line-ups
Ireland are probably going to play the same XI as in the previous game.
As for India, they too are probably going to play the same XI as in the previous game.
Ireland XI : Wilson (C), Shannon, Stirling, Balbirnie, K. O’Brien, Poynter (WK), S. Singh, Dockrell, Rankin, Thompson, Chase.
India XI : R. Sharma, Dhawan, Raina, Kohli (C), Dhoni (WK), H. Pandya, Pandey, K. Yadav, Chahal, B. Kumar, Bumrah.
Prediction
India are strong favorites for this game and I think they will dominate this game and have another win to their name clean sweeping the Irish.
