Team India Playing XI for 5th T20I – Kohli & Rohit to open the innings!

England won the toss and elect to bowl again in the 5th and deciding T20I. Team India lost 4 tosses out of 5 in this series. Morgan went in with the same team while Virat Kohli led Team India made one change to bolster their bowling options!

Playing XIs:

India:

Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rahul Chahar, T Natarajan.

England:

Jason Roy, Jos Buttler (wk), Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Eoin Morgan (c), Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Jofra Archer, Mark Wood, Adil Rashid.

Captain Virat Kohli said chasing come naturally to lot of their players but this will help them work on defending targets. India made one change with KL Rahul out of the team and T Natarajan added to the playing XI. Kohli said he will be opening the innings with Rohit Sharma.

This is the third opening combo for Team India in this series.

KL Rahul & Ishan Kishan – 2. KL Rahul & Rohit Sharma – 3. Virat Kohli & Rohit Sharma.

Head to Head record in India:

INDIA: 5 – ENGLAND: 5

The wicket the teams are playing on today are the same as the 2nd T20I in which India won chasing down England’s target on Ishan Yadav’s debut.

Rahul Chahar who replaced Yuzvendra Chahal keeps his place in the team! Indian batsman Suryakumar Yadav said he is open to batting anywhere his team needs but he is enjoying batting at the top order right now!

The series is level at 2-2 at the moment with the decider being played today (March 20, 2021). Teams winning the toss won 3 matches and lost 1 in this series. Team India is the only team to win the T20I despite losing toss in this series so far!

England is the No.1 T20I team in ICC Cricket Rankings and will stay at top despite the loss in the 5th T20I. Team India is ranked no.2 in ICC rankings for T20 teams.