Revealed! Why Jasprit Bumrah, Axar Patel sit out of India's playing XI in 2nd T20I against New Zealand

India pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah and vice-captain Axar Patel have missed out from the Suryakumar Yadav-led side's playing XI for the second T20I against New Zealand at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, Raipur. Notably, Bumrah made his international debut on the same date 10 years ago against Australia in 2016. Apart from India, New Zealand also featured with three changes and they added Seifert for Robinson, Christian Clark is out, Zak Foulkes is in, and Matt Henry is in for Jamieson.

Why Axar Patel and Jasprit Bumrah missed out?

Skipper Suryakumar Yadav revealed that Bumrah missed out from the playing XI to manage his workload and vice captain Axar Patel got an injury ahead of the second T20I. Harshit Rana and Kuldeep Yadav has been included in the playing XI as their replacement.

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"We have two changes - Axar got hit last night, Bumrah is resting, Harshit and Kuldeep come in" said Suryakumar Yadav at toss

India vs New Zealand 2nd T20I

Team India are leading 1-0 in the five-match T20I series against New Zealand after winning the opener clash by 41 runs. The hosts won the toss in the second T20I and opted to bowl.

"We are going to bowl first. There is already little bit of dew out there, we haven't chased in recent times, so we want to chase. I think it (the pitch) looks good. I think it's the same wicket they said, which was used for the ODI series. I think we play every game, we try and improve on all the aspects. We never get perfect. We are always learning. But yeah, we look to do the same things again. We try and do the same thing in the bowling department, fielding and batting" Suryakumar Yadav added.

India vs New Zealand 2nd T20I playing XI

New Zealand (Playing XI): Devon Conway, Tim Seifert(w), Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner(c), Zakary Foulkes, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy

India (Playing XI): Sanju Samson(w), Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy.