IND vs SCO T20 World Cup 2021 Match Live Updates
IND vs SCO Highlights: India showed their class and might with an all-round effort as they pulverised Scotland by eight wickets in a Super 12 game on Friday, ensuring that they live to fight another day in the ICC T20 World Cup. (With inputs from PTI)
Virat Kohli: A dominating performance, something that we were striving to do again. Now it will be interesting to see what happens on 7th (November). Don't want to say a lot about today's performance, we know what we can do. Also tells you how important the toss can be at this venue. We wanted to get them under 110-120 max, that was the mindset we went in with. The bowlers were excellent, and then KL and Rohit did really well. We spoke about the 8-10 over bracket before the start, didn't want to really go too hard because if you lose wickets, then an extra 20 balls could cost. We thought that if they play naturally, runs will come quickly. If you look at our practice games, we have been actually batting like this only. Just a couple of aberrations happened, where we just couldn't got those two successive good overs. Teams bowled well too, and created pressure on us. But we were just two overs of good batting. Jadeja bowled really well, also Shami was quite good. My family is here - that is enough (birthday) celebration for me.
Kyle Coetzer: We were outclassed in every department. The only way we're going to improve is by getting games like this. Boys are still going to take something out of this. Mark has been excellent for us all tournament. He has a great set of skills, he has learnt a lot from other spinners too. That's another important reason for us to be in this tournament. He (Leask) is a fantastic striker of the cricket ball, lovely to watch.
Ravindra Jadeja | Player of the Match: I was enjoying bowling on this track today. The odd ball was turning, I was enjoying very much. The first one (Berrington's wicket) was a special one, whenever you get a batsman out with a turning ball, that's always special. We were looking to play good brand of cricket. Everybody knows that we had to win with a big margin for us to up our net run-rate, we were looking to play our best game and give our 100% on the field. Everybody's happy, one more game to go, hopefully we play like this. If we play like this, nobody can beat us. In T20 format, we have to play like this, that is for sure.
STAT ATTACK
Winning with most balls to spare in T20 World Cups
90 SL v Net Chittagong 2014
82 Aus v Ban Dubai 2021
81 Ind v Sco Dubai 2021 *
77 SL v Net Sharjah 2021
74 NZ v Ken Durban 2007
70 Eng v WI Dubai 2021
9:54 PM Ravindra Jadeja is adjudged Player of the Match for a brilliant spell of 3/15.
India 89/2 in 6.3 overs Suryakumar Yadav finish off the game in style with a straight six off his second ball of the innings.
India 82/2 in 6 overs Rahul fails to finish off the game as his shot lacked the power to clear the long-on boundary. Watt picks his firs wicket of the night
India 81/1 in 5.4 overs Rahul slams a boundary and a six in the over off Watt to reach his 50 in just 18 balls. India just five runs away from win. This was the second fastest 50 by an Indian batter in the World Cup behind Yuvraj Singh's 12-ball blitzkrieg against England in inaugural edition.
India 70/1 in 5 overs Rahul and Rohit were playing musical chairs of boundaries (a six and two boundaries) before Wheal earned Scotland a consolatory wicket.
India 53/0 in 4 overs Rohit welcomes Safyaan Sharif with a six and two boundaries in the over as Indian openers make light work of Scottish bowling.
India 39/0 in 3 overs It's one-way traffic now Rahul started off the third over with a four and a six off the first delivery while Rohit added another boundary later in the over.
India 23/0 in 2 overs Rahul sprays three boundaries all over the leg region to give India the start they wanted for win. Remember a win in 7.1 overs will put India ahead of Afghanistan.
India 8/0 in 1 over Rohit Sharma starts India chase with a boundary over deep square leg off Mark Watt.
9:08 PM Some interesting facts from Dubai
India need to chase this down in:
-- 11.2 overs to get their NRR to +1.000
-- 8.5 overs to go past New Zealand's NRR
-- 7.1 overs to go past Afghanistan's NRR
* if they score exactly 86
INNINGS BREAK That was a complete performance from Indian bowlers as both pacers and spinners delivered on the night. Jadeja and Shami finished with an identical spell of 3/15. Jadeja deserves more credit as he delivered three wickets in the middle over to break Scotland backbone after Bumrah and Shami and Bumrah provided two wickets in the powerplay. Now it's vital for India to close out the match as soon as possible if they want to remain their slim hopes of qualifying for the semis alive.
Scotland 85/10 in 17.4 overs Bumrah bowled Mark Watt with a full delivery as the southpaw moved to his left with the aim to play a scoop shot.
Scotland 81/9 in 16.3 overs CLEAN BOWLED! Shami castles Alasdair Evans! India are making a light work of Scotland.
Scotland 81/8 in 16.2 overs OUT! Ishan Kishan runs out newly-in Safyaan Sharif; that's two wickets in two balls.
Scotland 81/7 in 16.1 overs Shami to MacLeod, Bowled! Full and straight at good pace, MacLeod plays across the line of it, misses, and it smashes into the stumps.
Scotland 70/6 in 15 overs Jadeja completes his charismatic spell at 3/15; did concede a boundary in the over to Mark Watt.
Scotland 63/6 in 13.4 overs OUT! Ashwin finally picks his first wicket of the night. Chris Greaves (1) is the sixth wicket to fall on the night as he fails to get under the carrom ball; miscuing it to Hardik Pandya at long-on.
Scotland 60/5 in 12 overs Jadeja completes his third over with his spell so far reading an impressive 3/9.
Scotland 58/5 in 11.2 overs This is certainly Jadeja's night as he punishes Leask for trying a sweep shot off his slider; impacting plumb in front of middle stump.
Scotland 57/4 in 11 overs Leask smashes Shami for a six and a boundary in the over. The Scotland innings is gaining momentum again.
Scotland 44/4 in 10 overs Leask finds that much-needed boundary over the cow corner as Varun Chakravarthy completes his third over.
Scotland 36/4 in 9 overs Leask and MacLeod looks to rebuild Scottish innings as they take four singles in the over bowled by Jadeja.
Scotland 32/4 in 8 overs With two new batters in Michael Leask and Callum MacLeod on the crease, Ashwin gives away just three runs in his 2nd over.
Scotland 29/4 in 7 overs OUT! Scotland in all sorts of trouble as Jadeja hands twin blow to the European side in the over. Their weakness against spinners is certainly exposed as Cross (2) was late on the back foot to deal with quick delivery; hitting him plum on the pads. The batter took a review but was to no avail as umpire was asked to retain his decision.
Scotland 28/3 in 6.2 overs Berrington departs for a duck as Jadeja takes his middle stump as the batter expected the ball to move.
Scotland 27/2 in 5.2 overs OUT! And that's the big wicket of Munsey (24). It's Shami who gets rid of the southpaw. Slower ball does the trick again as Munsey it straight to Hardik Pandya at mid-on.
Scotland 27/1 in 5 overs Chakravarthy changes ends and gives away just 2 runs in the over. The spinner is still in the hunt for his 1st wicket in the tournament.
Scotland 25/1 in 4 overs Munsey is quickly becoming the dangerman. The southpaw welcomes R Ashwin with three consecutive boundaries; two of them reverse sweeps over the third man region.
Scotland 13/1 in 3 overs Matthew Cross joins Munsey in the middle; cautiously sees off rest of the over.
Scotland 13/1 in 2.3 overs OUT! Bumrah castles Coetzer (1), who was standing deep in the crease. It is a cleverly delivered slow by Bumrah and the right-handed opener fails to read it.
Scotland 8/0 in 1 over A last-ball six by George Munsey over deep square leg distorts what was an interesting 1st over by Bumrah. The pacer tried to find the blackhole but misses the length; Munsey whips it using the wrist.
Scotland 8/0 in 1 over A last-ball six by George Munsey over deep square leg distorts what was an interesting 1st over by Bumrah. The pacer tried to find the blackhole but misses the length; Munsey whips it using the wrist.
7:29 PM Indian team is out on the field while George Munsey and Kyle Coetzer start the innings for Scotland. They take the knee in support of Black Lives Matter movement before the match begins
7:23 PM Both teams are out for the national anthem. Scotland's anthem is being played first as India are the official host of the tournament.
7:07 PM Let's take a look at the playing XI of both sides.
India (Playing XI): KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli(c), Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah
Scotland (Playing XI): George Munsey, Kyle Coetzer(c), Matthew Cross(w), Richie Berrington, Calum MacLeod, Michael Leask, Chris Greaves, Mark Watt, Safyaan Sharif, Alasdair Evans, Bradley Wheal
7:05 PM India win toss; opt to bowl first. Virat Kohli decides to play three spinners for the match as Varun Chakravarthy returns in the line-up for pacer Shardul Thakur. The other two spinners are Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin.
6:50 PM We are 10 minutes away from the crucial Toss and Kohli would hope to win after the coin failed to land in his favour on all three previous matches.
Virat Kohli's India will play against Kyle Coetzer's Scotland in match 37 of the T20 World Cup 2021. The Dubai International Stadium will be the venue for this high voltage clash between India and Scotland. The game will begin at 7:30 PM IST.
Cricket Scotland wishes Indian skipper Virat Kohli on his birthday. Besides, they also iterated that they have a few special plans for Virat in the upcoming India-Scotland match on Friday in Dubai.
IND vs SCO T20 WC: Ashwin says he evolved as T20 bowler since getting dropped in 2017
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After enduring a frustrating four-year wait to play white-ball cricket and spending his time on the sidelines during the Test series against England, spinner Ravichandran Ashwin says 'life is a circle" and there is nothing better than embracing humility during periods of success.
Ashwin made an impressive comeback to limited overs cricket by taking two wickets for just 14 runs against Afghanistan in the T20 World Cup on Wednesday.
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Their fate still not in their own hands, India will again go for broke when they resume their battle for survival in the T20 World Cup in another must-win contest, against Scotland, here on Friday.
Coming two days after the thrashing of Afghanistan, Scotland, for all their spunk and spirit in the T20 showpiece, provides their fancied opponents another great platform to win it big and boost their net run-rate while hoping that other results go their way.
