After mouth-watering bowling from Mohammed Shami (3/15) and Ravindra Jadeja (3/15), an opening partnership of 70 runs between Rohit Sharma (30 off 16 balls) and KL Rahul (50 off 19 balls) set the tone. operated India. They registered an impressive 8-wicket win over Scotland in the Group 2 match of the Super 12 stage of the ongoing ICC Men's T20 World Cup at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday.
Earlier, birthday boy Virat Kohli, after losing three consecutive tosses, won his first toss in the T20 World Cup 2021 and invited Scotland to bat first. Mohammed Shami and Ravindra Jadeja shook the Scottish batsmen with some sensational bowling. The Indian bowling pair restricted Scotland to 85/10 with three wickets each.
Michael Leask and George Muncy scored the most runs for Scotland as no other batsman in their team could score more than 30 runs.
Scotland had the worst start as Bumrah dismissed skipper Kyle Coetzer in the third over, with Shami getting the wicket of another opener Munsey in the sixth over. When the scoreboard read 27/2 by the end of 6 overs, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja picked up two wickets in the 7th over to prop up Scotland's innings.
Scotland had lost four wickets for just 44 runs at the end of 10 overs. In the next few overs, Bumrah and Jadeja took the remaining wickets to restrict their opponents to 85/10.
India's Playing XI: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Varun Chakraborty, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah
Scotland Playing XI: George Munsey, Kyle Coetzer (c), Matthew Cross (wk), Richie Berrington, Callum McLeod, Michael Leask, Chris Greaves, Mark Watts, Alasdair Evans, Safyan Sharif, Bradley Wheel.
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