GEORGETOWN (Guyana): England captain Jos Buttler won the toss and elected to bowl first in the high-profile T20 World Cup semi-final against India here on Thursday.
Both teams remained unchanged.
India captain Rohit Sharma said, "We would have batted first, the weather is looking good, whatever was supposed to happen has happened. We wanted to put runs on the board. As the game progressed, the pitch got slower. She goes." Toss.
"Because of the rain, we thought it would be a little beneficial to bowl first," Buttler said.
Teams:
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah.
England: Philip Salt, Jos Buttler (wk/c), Jonny Bairstow, Harry Brook, Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Reece Topley.
Both teams remained unchanged.
India captain Rohit Sharma said, "We would have batted first, the weather is looking good, whatever was supposed to happen has happened. We wanted to put runs on the board. As the game progressed, the pitch got slower. She goes." Toss.
"Because of the rain, we thought it would be a little beneficial to bowl first," Buttler said.
Teams:
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah.
England: Philip Salt, Jos Buttler (wk/c), Jonny Bairstow, Harry Brook, Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Reece Topley.
