Published on: Oct 20, 2021 9:00 am IST|Updated on: Nov 10, 2021 12:30 pm IST
The England and New Zealand team will lock horns in the Warmup fixture of the T20 World Cup 2021. The both teams lost their first warmup matches and will be on the look out to fetch an important win to bring back the confidence ahead of the World Cup. The England team lost against India in a run feast, where the bowlers could not defend the score of 188. While the New Zealand team also could not win their last fixture, where the Australia team chase down the score of 158 in the last over of the match, and Kiwis will look to improve their batting.
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England
The England and New Zealand team are the strong sides in the T20 World Cup, and have players who have quality players in their ranks. The advantage of both teams will be their experience of playing in the IPL 2021. The New Zealand team displayed fine performances in the last fixture, but lost a thriller in the last over and are expected to win this game on the back of stronger bowling attack. While the England team were terrific with their batting effort to score around 190 runs, but their bowlers let them down and will be looking to improve their performances.
The winning chances of the England team are certainly high due to the better batting unit of the team having fine exposure to the surfaces in UAE after playing in the IPL. If their bowlers maintain line lengths, they are surely gonna win this match and get a winning momentum ahead of the T20 World Cup 2021 group matches. While the New Zealand team will look to be clinical in their performances and count upon their experienced players like Kane Williamson and Trent Boult to do well and finish the warmup leg well. While Guptill was impressive with his quickfire performances at the top order.
The England team is likely to bring in Tymal Mills and Eoin Morgan in the Playing 11, who did not appear in the first warmup in place of Chris Jordan and Liam Livingstone. While no other changes are expected in the Playing 11 of the England team.
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It was a fine effort by the batters of New Zealand to post a total of around 160 on a slow surface, but would need to keep improving. While the bowlers tried hard but could not defend the score. All the 3 players, Tim Seifert, Lockie Ferguson, and Mark Chapman are expected to feature against England.
Kane is a reliable player for the New Zealand team across all the formats. In the last fixture, he stabilized the team well to score 37 off 30 balls and stitched crucial partnership, which helped them to go past 150.
Boult has been a consistent wicket taker in the limited overs format and will a lethal weapon for the New Zealand team with the new as well as old ball. In the last fixture, he took 2 wickets.
The top order batsman started the tournament with a fine confidence by scoring 49 off 36 balls and forming a platform for the team to post a strong total on the board.
The bowling all rounder will be crucial to the team’s prospects in this fixture to pick wickets in the power play overs and hit long balls in the final overs of the innings.
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