Meerut-born India fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar leads the pack of pacers whenever he gets a chance. Having played domestic cricket for Uttar Pradesh, Bhuvneshwar represented Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Bhuvneshwar came as a Christmas gift to the Indian cricket team as made his international debut at the age of 22, playing Pakistan in a T20I match at Bengaluru on December 25 2012. After claiming three big wickets in Nasir Jamshed, Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal on debut, Bhuvneshwar made some space for himself in the ODI team as well. He made his ODI debut against the same opponents on December 30, 2012, at Chennai. Riding his consistent wicket-taking abilities, Bhuvneshwar made his Test debut when Australia toured India in February 2013.
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While the bowling is an area that SRH will look to correct, the Royals will want to ensure that they get their batting right.
The fourth pacer's slot is also up for grabs and the fast bowler said his focus was purely on the IPL and doing well for SRH.
Andre Russell smashed an unbeaten 49 off just 19 deliveries and took KKR to a six-wicket victory at Eden Gardens.
Looking at the balance both the teams have it will surely be a cracker of a contest.
Since the league's inception in 2008, every franchise has always tried to keep at least one death-over specialist.
According to Thampi, the most important thing which he learnt from the senior pacers was how to prepare his body.
While Bhuvneshwar was not used in the Test series and subsequently played eight ODIs, Mohammed Shami featured in four Tests against Australia and nine ODIs (five against Australia and four in New Zealand) in recent times.
The Indian team management has been categorical in its demand that the troika of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Bhuvneshwar Kumar's workload be effectively managed by franchises ahead of the World Cup.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar said the eight-wicket loss to New Zealand is a "reality check" for the team.
Only four Indian batsmen - Dhawan (13), Pandya (16), Kuldeep (15) and Chahal (18 not out) - posted double-digit scores.
Dhoni averages 52.95 while batting at number four, which is higher than his current career-average of 50.11 over 333 games.
Buvneshwar was seen bowling in the nets keeping a shoe at the base of the stumps in order to perfect his yorker ahead of the 2nd ODI in Adelaide.
Bhuvneshwar, who was a part of the Test squad, wasn't picked in the playing XI during the four-match series and did look rusty during the slog overs of the opening ODI.
After winning a historic Test series a few days ago, India aim to repeat the performance under the lights with the white ball.
Virat Kohli has scored 2735 runs in 2018 but under his captaincy, India have failed to win either of the Test series in South Africa and England.
India have added Ravindra Jadeja, Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar to the squad in the absence of Rohit Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin.
Australia had scored 137 for seven in 19 overs when the first spell of rain arrived at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Fleming, who has played a lot of limited overs and a few Test matches against India, like most of the pundits agreed that India never had such a potent pace attack.
Yadav picked up five wickets in two matches at an economy-rate of 5.6 in India's home series 3-0 win over the current T20 champions, West Indies.
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