Three ducks in a row: Abhishek out for zero vs NED; yet to score a run in T20 WC

NEW DELHI: How galore ducks are excessively galore ducks? India opener Abhishek Sharma mightiness beryllium asking himself arsenic helium was again dismissed for zero and failed to people adjacent a azygous tally successful the past group-stage lucifer of the T20 World Cup against the Netherlands connected Wednesday.

The left-handed batter was bowled connected the 3rd shot of the archetypal implicit by Dutch off-spinner Aryan Dutt.Dutt pitched the shot astatine the backmost of a magnitude connected the mediate and disconnected stump, and it skidded successful with the angle. Abhishek had a chaotic swipe astatine it, which was possibly coming aft the 2 dots, but missed it completely, and the shot hits the limb stump.This was the 3rd duck successful a enactment for Abhishek successful the T20 World Cup. The southpaw has endured a hard T20 World Cup run truthful far.

He began with a aureate duck against the USA successful India’s opening lucifer and was aboriginal hospitalised successful New Delhi owed to a tummy infection, which ruled him retired of the clash against Namibia. On his instrumentality against Pakistan connected Sunday, helium was dismissed for different duck.Earlier, India won the flip and elected to bat archetypal against the Netherlands successful their last radical signifier lucifer of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup astatine Narendra Modi Stadium successful Ahmedabad connected Wednesday.

FOLLOW LIVEThe Men successful Blue, who person already qualified for the Super Eights, volition beryllium looking to extremity the league signifier with 4 wins retired of 4 matches, gathering momentum up of the adjacent stage. The Netherlands, meanwhile, volition beryllium aiming for an upset successful a tourney that has truthful acold showcased beardown performances from respective subordinate cricket teams.Speaking astatine the toss, Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav confirmed 2 changes to the playing XI. Arshdeep Singh, the left-arm pacer, comes successful for Kuldeep Yadav, portion Axar Patel has been "rested" and Washington Sundar gets a game.Suryakumar said, "We are going to bat first. It looks similar a bully surface. We privation to enactment runs connected the committee and enactment immoderate unit connected the bowlers to support the total. The temper successful the campy is truly bully and they are playing the marque of cricket I privation them to play. Every game, idiosyncratic is putting their manus up and that is bully to see. We person 2 changes - Arshdeep comes successful for Kuldeep, Axar is resting and Washington comes in."India (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan(w), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep SinghNetherlands (Playing XI): Michael Levitt, Max O'Dowd, Bas de Leede, Colin Ackermann, Scott Edwards (w/c), Zach Lion-Cachet, Roelof van der Merwe, Logan van Beek, Aryan Dutt, Kyle Klein, Noah Croes.