Cricket News: Chance for India to experiment in third T20I

Two matches, two wins, and team India have already wrapped up the three-match T20I series over the weekend in Florida. Now they head off to the Providence Stadium in Guyana for the third and final T20I match with the option to experiment with their playing XI. Virat Kohli’s men might have won both their T20 matches over reigning T20 champions West Indies but their performances have been far from convincing in the T20 series so far. GFX IN Let’s look at the likely playing XI of India. Rohit Sharma is the only half-centurion for the victorious Indian side so far on the sluggish Lauderhill track but the middle-order has once again failed to fire. Rishabh Pant, who skipper Kohli expected to solidify his place in the Indian side with regular white-ball wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni taking a break, has been lacklustre so far in this series — throwing his wicket away for scores of 0 and 4. Even the likes of Manish Pandey failed to fire in the two opportunities so far. The Indian skipper has clearly hinted that his team may ring in a few more changes for the third T20I to test their bench strength. KL Rahul, who has the best strike-rate and average among Indian batsmen in T20s in the last couple of year, could be brought back into the line-up in place of Shikhar Dhawan. India might also bring in the likes of Deepak Chahar and Rahul Chahar for the final T20 game to rest Bhuvneshwar Kumar and possibly Ravindra Jadeja for the tie.