Regardless of any speak of top-order frailties, India stay a daunting T20 workforce.
Sure, they had been nicely crushed by South Africa and given a scare by USA however there’s a motive they got here into this event as overwhelming favourites.
Between the top of the final T20 World Cup in 2024 and the beginning of this, India received 33 of their 41 matches making them essentially the most constant workforce cricket’s most inconsistent format has seen.
With the bat, they began slowly on this event however gained momentum by scoring 256-4 in opposition to Zimbabwe within the penultimate match of the Tremendous 8s.
They scored 69 runs within the closing 4 overs that day – one thing that’s changing into a transparent power.
India are solely the tenth fastest-scoring workforce within the center section of an innings however have hit extra boundaries than anybody else on the loss of life. They’ve hit 57 boundaries within the final 4 overs in comparison with England’s 44.
And whereas India haven’t misplaced a T20 on the Wankhede since 2017, it’s a floor with dangerous recollections for England.
It’s the place they misplaced to West Indies within the group stage, had been crushed by a file 150 runs by India final 12 months – Abhishek scored 135 from 54 balls that day – and misplaced to South Africa of their largest one-day worldwide defeat by way of runs on the 2023 World Cup.
That day, England wilted within the Mumbai warmth and temperatures are forecast to hit 39 levels in the course of the daylight on Thursday.
It won’t be a lot cooler when the match begins at 19:00 native time.
