Tine for india to raise the game with Series on the line

India for the first time, have experienced the pressure of an ODI series on the line in Virat's captaincy. If, anything that could have been asked for, in the beginning of the series, is, about contest, and now it is well in true, in the firing line, as India need to win the second ODI in Pune on Wednesday, to stay alive in the Series.

While, the Indian vice-captain, Rohit, pointed out about their concern facing left arm pacers, prior to the series, and it eventually became a big factor, facing, on fire Trent Boult. However, it is not limited just to Boult - as the Kiwis attacked as a pack, but if Indian batsman can't handle the left armer early on, in Pune - they might find themselves in a similar situation - as - of - in Mumbai.

The way the Kiwis batsman swept both Indian wrist spinners has been a surprise, with the previous opposition’s Batsman struggled to negate them. While their new shuffled batting order has done a great job and that too without much contribution from their skipper.

On the other hand, India have to raise the game and have to find solutions against the left armers' as soon as possible, as it's been the weak link in the batting order. Apart from that, there were few positives to take from Mumbai with Karthick seemed settled and Bhuvi continuing to deliver cameos in lower-order.

Indian team

                   If what happened in Mumbai is taken into consideration then it has to be said, India has undone by intensity shown by Kiwis. So, there is no point in changing the Playing XI, rather than to raise their own game.

  

Playing XI : : 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 Dinesh Karthik, 5 Kedar Jadhav, 6 MS Dhoni(wk), 7 Hardik Pandya, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Yuzvendra Chahal, 11 Jasprit Bumrah

New Zealand team

                 For Kiwis, there is no point in changing the Playing XI, as they need to continue the good work and intensity shown in the first ODI.

Playing XI: 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Colin Munro, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Henry Nicholls, 7 Colin de Grandhomme, 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Adam Milne, 10 Trent Boult, 11 Tim Southee

Pitch and Conditions

        

                The Pitch at  Maharashtra Cricket Association in Pune as offered a flat pitch in the two ODIs played there, and dust bowl for a Test match. While in this season of IPL it offered a two-paced track for most of the tournament. So it's interesting to see, what the pitch offers on Wednesday as the previous ODIs offered run fest's, and India, so far haven't prepared a rank run-fester in this home season.