Virat Kohli-led formidable Team India which is placed at No. 3 spot in the ICC Rankings, is all set to face decent New Zealand in their first warm-up match on Super Sunday, at the Kennington Oval in London, which is further seen as the perfect game for practice before going into the multilateral event of 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, with a bang.
Interestingly, in their previous five-match bilateral series, India claimed the One-day Internationals series by 3-2, but which has further seen a decent completion from the Black Caps in all the departments.
Apart from the Kiwis, the defending champions will also lock horns with Mashrafe Bin Mortaza-led Bangladesh, in their second warm-up match on May 30, before going to wrestle with arch-rivals Pakistan on June 4.
Coming off from the recently concluded glitzy tenth edition of Indian Premier League (IPL), several players have given their best as ace off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, will roll over his arm with fresh legs after taking a break from widely acclaimed twenty20 competition when he was nursing sports hernia.
It is going to be an interesting battle between all eight teams — to fight for the coveted title and to see how teams would fare after getting a couple of practice games to start off for the global event.
Sportzwiki has come up with five points to talk about and which Kohli could experiment to excel in the warm-up game against Kiwis prior to the much-hyped event.