India vs England Cuttack Barabati Stadium Pitch Report: Indian captain Rohit Sharma, who has been struggling to score runs for a long time in the second ODI between India and England on Sunday, will be eyeing the form of star batsman Virat Kohli. India has won the first ODI in the first ODI played in Nagpur and gained an initial lead in the three -match series and will have to win the series by continuing its victory campaign. Kohli could not play in the first match due to swelling in the right knee but batting coach Sitanshu Kotak confirmed that Kohli is ‘fully fit and ready for Sunday’s match.’
Set up about playing XI
With the fit of Virat Kohli, the team management will have to do the match for the playing XI. In Nagpur ODI, Shreyas Iyer was given a chance to replace Virat Kohli for India and he has strengthened his claim by playing an innings of 59 runs off 36 balls. When Indian batting coach Sitanshu Kotak came in front of the media on Saturday, he did not say who would sit out of the opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shreyas Iyer. But it is being speculated that Jaiswal may have to sit outside.
Virat Kohli’s target will be a big record
After a poor performance in Australia’s era, Kohli also played a Ranji match for Delhi, but in this match too, he was able to score only six runs. But Kohli has performed brilliantly in ODI cricket and he is only 94 runs away from completing 14000 runs in this format. If he achieves this feat, then he will become the third batsman in the world to reach this stage after Sachin Tendulkar (18,426) and Kumar Sangakkara (14,234).
How will the pitch of cutting
If you talk about the pitch of cuttack, then the spin bowlers get help on it. There are high scoring matches on this ground. Condition is in favor of the bowling team first and dew plays an important role after evening.
There are 19 ODIs on this ground so far and the record for the biggest score of this ground is in the name of the Indian team. In 2017, Team India scored 381 runs against England at the loss of 6 wickets, in response to which England managed to score 366 runs. However, last time an ODI match was organized here 6 years ago. In such a situation, it will be interesting to see whether the batsmen will be confused here or the bowlers show their skills.
How is India’s record
There have been 19 ODIs so far at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, in which the team batting first has won 7 times. Whereas on 12 occasions the team that chases the success target has been achieved. India has played 17 matches on this ground and won 13, while India has lost four matches. In terms of runs, India’s biggest victory on this ground came against Sri Lanka in November 2014, when he scored 169 runs.
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