Indian bowlers look to improve against Australia ahead of the 2nd T20I clash

Team Indias young bowling lineup will have to put their apprehensive approach behind them ahead of the second clash against Australia on Sunday India started the T20I series with a dominant win by two wickets Suryakumar played a captain knock and accompanying him was Ishan Kishan who struck 58 runsThe pitch and conditions at the Greenfield International Stadium will not be massively different and that makes it imperative for the Indian bowlers to fire collectivelyAlso ReadCrickets new rising starsDespite that the management might not look to shake the order for this match In the opening encounter pacers Arshdeep Singh and Prasidh Krishna went for 1025 and 1250 runs per over while legspinner Ravi Bishnoi were carted around for 1350 runs per overIn a format like T20 it is not an uncommon sight to see bowlers getting the stick but those three bowlers lacked the imagination and variety needed on such surfaces on that dayAlso ReadIPL Auction 2024 Is skipper Hardik Pandya on his way out of Gujarat TitansIndias ambition to double the series lead will depend a lot on them significantly improving their produce here Its not an impossible task either as Mukesh showed The pace bowler mixed up his deliveries well with the yorkers bouncers wide deliveries around offstump and so on to contain the Aussie battersSo the other frontline bowlers now have a route map to follow in the second matchIn their defence one can say that many of them were playing toplevel cricket after a gap but such is the nature of schedule these days the players need to put their best foot forward in the first available opportunityRavi Bishnoi has been talked about as one of the players to look forward to as far as the whiteball formats are concerned But he was vastly disappointing at Vizag and looked planless against Josh Inglis when he went on the offensive against him Bishnoi will have to realise that he cannot rely on a sequence of googlies to make an impact as it can lead to a sense of familiarity in batters and he will require drastic course correction herePrasidh too was equally underwhelming more so because he was a part of Indias 50over World Cup squad recently and had a chance to work with the toptier players and coaches at netsHowever there was no trace of that effort in his bowling as his attempt to purchase bounce from the track was treated with disdain by Australian battersHowever India will have not much to complain about in the batting department as skipper Suryakumar Yadav Ishan Kishan Rinku Singh and Yashasvi Jaiswal displayed a fine touch against the Aussie bowlers though a bit second stringSuryakumar Rinku and Jaiswal met the quickscoring demands of a high chase effortlessly though Kishan took a few overs to settle down before hitting the overdriveIndia will hope for a similar fire from them in the second match as well and will bank on Kishan to reduce the number of dot balls during his tenureHe was able to accelerate in the opening game after making 21 off 19 balls but the lefthander would not want an encore of that in this matchRuturaj Gaikwad who was run out in the previous match and Tilak Varma will be eyeing some runs against their name as they are part of Indias journey into the T20 futureThe Aussie camp on the other hand will be looking to build on a few nuggets of positives from the first matchInglis hundred his first in topflight cricket across formats while coming in as an opener might have given them a breathing space on the road that leads to the T20 World CupBut the move to promote Steve Smith as opener might not have fetched the desired result in its entiretyThe veteran righthander made 52 off 41 balls but he laboured to manufacture runs even on a smooth deck as Inglis daredevilry ably masked Smiths strugglesLike their Indian counterparts the Aussie bowlers except Jason Behrendorff also could not apply the squeeze on the rampaging Suryakumar and companyThey will also be looking for a markedly improved outing in that department here and as part of that the Aussies might just give a go to legspinner Adam Zampa in place of Tanvir SanghaSquadsIndia Suryakumar Yadav captain Ruturaj Gaikwad vicecaptain Ishan Kishan Yashasvi Jaiswal Tilak Varma Rinku Singh Jitesh Sharma wk Washington Sundar Axar Patel Shivam Dubey Ravi Bishnoi Arshdeep Singh Prasidh Krishna Avesh Khan Mukesh KumarAustralia Matthew Wade captain Aaron Hardie Jason Behrendorff Sean Abbott Tim David Nathan Ellis Travis Head Josh Inglis Glenn Maxwell Tanveer Sangha Matt Short Steve Smith Marcus Stoinis Kane Richardson Adam ZampaMatch starts at 7 PMWith PTI Inputs