Ireland is on cusp of creating history as they are 1-0 up against India in two-T20I series.
Ireland had created history by defeating India in the first T20I at the same venue on June 26 by 34 runs and will be looking to make the most of the opportunity to win the second T20I and their maiden T20I series win over India.
India, meanwhile, has to ponder many different things, especially their bowling combination, given how poorly their pacers bowled in death overs.
Aakash Chopra has proposed two changes to the starting lineup. He believed that Prasidh Krishna should be excluded since he has proven to be very costly in T20Is. Krishna went for 57 runs in his four overs in the first T20I, including a 27-run over in the death.
"I feel Prasidh Krishna will have to go out. He has played six T20Is, and he has conceded a lot of runs. He has conceded nearly 275 runs in 24 overs, has an economy of 11.5, and has eight wickets in total to his name.
You feel he is a Test bowler and can bowl well in ODIs. In T20s, he comes with conditions applied. So, he is not your out-and-out T20 bowler. Of course, what he does for the Gujarat Titans makes us feel that he will be fine, but that's the Gujarat Titans, and they have a different setup. However, if we talk about T20Is, he is a weak link for sure," Chopra said on his YouTube channel.
Instead of Krishna, Chopra urged the Indian team management to hand Prince Yadav a T20I debut, who recently made his ODI debut against Afghanistan.
"So, he goes out. Prince Yadav is sitting outside on this team. He comes in. So, I feel Prince Yadav can get a chance here. He can make his T20I debut here. You should make one change where Prince comes in, and Prasidh goes out," Chopra suggested.
The second change Chopra suggested was to exclude Washington Sundar from the XI and instead pick a proper spinner or an all-rounder in his place.
"The second change I am thinking about is that you should leave Washington Sundar out because you are not going to bowl him in these conditions. Shivam Dube is already bowling decently. So you have two options left.
Either give the T20I cap to Suryansh Shedge because we need batting as well, although you already have Axar Patel at No. 7, and you still find Harshit Rana at No. 8. You can play out-and-out bowlers from Nos. 9 to 11," Chopra stated.
"For that, Ravi Bishnoi's name will definitely come to my mind. In fact, I would like to play Bishnoi against this team. I will ask Suryansh Shedge to wait a little. Let's take a chance and go with an extra bowler, a proper bowler, and we shall figure it out," he elaborated.
Aakash Chopra's India playing XI for 2nd T20I:
Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (WK), Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer (C), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Prince Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi