India vs New Zealand 1st ODI Match
India (IND) vs New Zealand (NZ) 1st ODI Match Date, Time, Squad, Venue, Playing 11 Prediction: India face New Zealand in the first ODI at the BCA Stadium in Vadodara.
ND vs NZ 1st ODI Match Date, Time: India face New Zealand in the first of a three-match ODI series in Vadodara. Veterans like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli return to action and could be seen in India colours for the last time till July this year, with this being the team’s last ODI series before the T20 World Cup and the Indian Premier League (IPL). It will also be Shubman Gill’s first series since he was dropped from the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup, with the 25-year-old returning as captian of the ODI side. Both Kohli and Rohit spent nearly one-and-a-half hours against Indian pacers in the nets on the eve of the match, spinners and throw down specialists after playing two matches each in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Having struck 77 and 131 in the two matches of the premier domestic competition, Kohli went hard against the Indian spinners and pacers alike. Some variable bounce against the throw down specialists in one of the nets did challenge the batting superstar further. However, India’s middle-order mainstay Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant, as well as pacer Mohammed Siraj weren’t a part of the three-hour training session, having played for their respective state teams in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Thursday.
IND vs NZ 1st ODI Predicted XIs
India predicted XI: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill (c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (VC), KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (WK), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh
Key player to watch out for: Yashasvi Jaiswal may have to make way for Shubman Gill, with India probably choosing to play both KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant for some solidity in the middle order. It would be some extraordinary bad luck for Jaiswal, as he had scored his maiden ODI century in just his previous innings.
