Toss Namibia chose to bowl vs India<\/p>\n
Gerhard Erasmus, the Namibia<\/a> captain, won the toss and chose to bowl to the accompaniment of loud cheers from a Delhi crowd eager to watch India<\/a>‘s batters in action. Erasmus suggested that dew could come into play later in the evening and make batting more straightforward in the second innings.<\/p>\n Three members of India’s squad were battling illness or injury worries in the lead-up to this game. One of them, Jasprit Bumrah<\/a>, returned to the side for his first game of the tournament, replacing Mohammed Siraj who played India’s tournament-opener against USA. Abhishek Sharma, discharged from hospital on Wednesday and recovering from a stomach bug, missed out, which reopened a door for Sanju Samson<\/a> at the top of the order.<\/p>\n Washington Sundar, who has recovered from a rib injury and trained with the squad on Wednesday, did not find a place in the XI.<\/p>\n Namibia made two changes to the side that lost to Netherlands, bringing in an extra fast bowler in Ben Shikongo<\/a> for the legspin-bowling allrounder Willem Myburgh, and replacing Dylan Leicher with Malan Kruger<\/a> in the middle order.<\/p>\n India: 1 Sanju Samson, 2 Ishan Kishan (wk), 3 Tilak Varma, 4 Suryakumar Yadav (capt), 5 Hardik Pandya, 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Rinku Singh, 8 Axar Patel, 9 Arshdeep Singh, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Varun Chakravarthy.<\/p>\n Namibia: 1 Louren Steenkamp, 2 Jan Frylinck, 3 Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, 4 Gerhard Erasmus (capt), 5 JJ Smit, 6 Zane Green (wk), 7 Ruben Trumpelmann, 8 Malan Kruger, 9 Ben Shikongo, 10 Bernard Scholtz, 11 Max Heingo.N<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss Namibia chose to bowl vs India Gerhard Erasmus, the Namibia captain, won the toss and chose to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-475381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}