2nd T20I: Will India unleash Sooryavanshi in search for a series-saving win?
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For a long while, bilateral trips to Ireland have felt like routine summer excursions for India's white-ball operations. Ireland did not merely beat India in the opening T20I; they out-thought, out-muscled, and thoroughly out-bowled the world champions, leaving Shreyas Iyer's captaincy debut in ruinous fragments. Chasing an above-par 182 on a Belfast surface with sprawling square boundaries, India were dismantled for 148, falling 34 runs short . It was a defeat that brought a sudden halt to an era of absolute certainty and threw a high-stakes curveball into India's selection strategy. Accustomed to the flat, true belters of the IPL, the Indian batters looked entirely unprepared for the spongy bounce and holding nature of the Civil Service Cricket Club pitch. Partnering him was Jai Moondra, born in Rajasthan's Tonk district, who moved to Dublin on a student visa in 2021. The stakes for India on Sunday are quietly immense. India could be far better served by blooding the multidimensional Suryansh Shedge or unleashing the specialist leg-spin of Ravi Bishnoi to exploit the large boundaries. For India, the big question is whether they want to throw Sooryavanshi into the mix in a must-win situation. India Predicted XI: Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson/Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan (wk), Shreyas Iyer (captain), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Suryansh Shedge/Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna.
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nd TI Will India unleash Sooryavanshi in search for a seriessaving win
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