He also admitted India could have won more convincingly in the previous match while confirming that Ravi Bishnoi replaced the injured Varun Chakravarthy. India won the toss and opted to bowl first against Afghanistan in the second T20I of the three-match series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday. India entered the second match after securing an easy seven-wicket win over Afghanistan in the first T20I on Sunday.
After winning the toss, Shreyas Iyer said India opted to bowl first, believing the Arun Jaitley Stadium wicket could offer some early assistance to the bowlers.
India won the toss and opted to bowl first against Afghanistan in the second T20I of the three-match series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday
“We are going to bowl first. You have a fair idea of how the wicket plays, and it gives the bowlers a little bit of an advantage. As a bowling unit, we could have picked up wickets in the middle overs. “We would have bowled first as well. We want to play positive cricket; we didn’t get a good start that day, but we recovered in the middle overs. We will try to do better tonight.
Because we could have won by a huge margin, it wasn’t comprehensive.
Varun is injured, and Ravi Bishnoi comes in,” Iyer said at the toss presentation. Afghanistan captain Ibrahim Zadran said they would have preferred to bowl first as well and are aiming to play positive cricket. He acknowledged their slow start in the previous game but said the team recovered well and would look to improve this time. We are playing the same playing XI,” he said.
