{"id":225596,"date":"2025-01-27T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/ind-vs-eng-3rd-t20i-pitch-report-how-surface-at-niranjan-shah-stadium-in-rajkot-can-play\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:14:09","slug":"ind-vs-eng-3rd-t20i-pitch-report-how-surface-at-niranjan-shah-stadium-in-rajkot-can-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/ind-vs-eng-3rd-t20i-pitch-report-how-surface-at-niranjan-shah-stadium-in-rajkot-can-play\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs ENG 3rd T20I pitch report: How surface at Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot can play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2025\/01\/rajkot-10-1737999905.webp?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"IND vs ENG 3rd T20I pitch report: How surface at Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot can play?\" title=\"IND vs ENG 3rd T20I pitch report: How surface at Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot can play?\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : GETTY<\/span> England players training at Niranjan Shah Stadium, Rajkot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\"><strong>IND vs ENG 3rd T20I pitch report: <\/strong>India and England are gearing up for the third round of their five-match face-off in the ongoing T20I series. After two games, it is India who hold the lead 2-0 and are eyeing a series win as soon as it can be. Meanwhile, England ran the hosts close in the second T20I, only to fall short of a brilliance from Tilak Varma.  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>The Mumbai Indians batter Tilak showed nerves of steel in the second game on a two-paced surface when almost every other batter was finding it hard to score. His 72-run knock helped the hosts chase down a middling total of 166 in Chennai.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The caravan now moves to the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot for the third match. Ahead of all the action, here is all you need to know about the venue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Niranjan Shah Stadium pitch report<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Niranjan Shah Stadium, previously known as the Saurashtra Cricket Academy Stadium, has hosted five T20Is previously. India have won four of them and have lost only one &#8211; to New Zealand in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The venue has two types of surfaces. The first one is a true batting surface with a road-like pitch. There are a lot of runs on offer on that strip. However, there is another strip which has strong assistance for the spinners. Considering this a T20I game, a flat track should be on offer, but don&#8217;t rule out a spinning surface.<\/p>\n<h3><u><strong>Niranjan Shah Stadium &#8211; The Numbers Game<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n<p>STATS &#8211; T20I<\/p>\n<p>Total Matches &#8211; 5<\/p>\n<p>Matches won batting first &#8211; 3<\/p>\n<p>Matches won bowling first &#8211; 2<\/p>\n<p>Average 1st innings Score &#8211; 189<\/p>\n<p>Average 2nd innings Score &#8211; 147<\/p>\n<p>Highest total recorded &#8211; 228\/5 (20 Ovs) By IND vs SL<\/p>\n<p>Lowest total recorded &#8211; 87\/10 (16.5 Ovs) By RSA vs IND<\/p>\n<p>Highest score chased &#8211; 202\/4 (19.4 Ovs) By IND vs AUS<\/p>\n<p>Lowest score defended &#8211; 196\/2 (20 Ovs) By NZ vs IND<\/p>\n<p><strong>India&#8217;s squad:<\/strong> Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/hardik-pandya\" rel=\"noopener\">Hardik Pandya<\/a>, Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Shivam Dube, Ramandeep Singh , <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/mohammed-shami\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammed Shami<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>England&#8217;s squad:<\/strong> Ben Duckett, Philip Salt (wk), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/jos-buttler\" rel=\"noopener\">Jos Buttler<\/a> (c), Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Jamie Smith, Jamie Overton, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Saqib Mahmood, Rehan Ahmed, Jacob Bethell, Gus Atkinson<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-eng-3rd-t20i-pitch-report-how-surface-at-niranjan-shah-stadium-in-rajkot-can-play-2025-01-27-973361\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : GETTY England players training at Niranjan Shah Stadium, Rajkot. 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