Team news
During the warm-up games, India tried playing five specialist bowlers
and used Irfan Pathan and R Ashwin at Nos 7 and 8, but don't expect MS
Dhoni to take that adventurous route. He never does, no matter how weak
the bowling might be. Dhoni said India will go in with four bowlers for the opening game.
India (possible): 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Virat
Kohli, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 MS Dhoni (capt.
&wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Irfan Pathan, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 L Balaji/Ashok
Dinda.
Seamer and Afghanistan's strike bowler Hamid Hassan has been ruled out
of their opening game due to injury. He missed their warm-up games as
well.
Afghanistan (possible): 1 Mohammad Shahzad (wk), 2 Javed Ahmadi, 3
Karim Sadiq, 4 Nawroz Mangal (capt.), 5 Asghar Stanikzai, 6 Mohammad
Nabi, 7 Samiullah Shenwari, 8 Dawlat Zadran, 9 Shapoor Zadran, 10
Gulbodin Naib, 11 Izatullah Dawlatzai
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