India look to settle the score

India went from the low of losing comprehensively to Zimbabwe to the high of winning similarly against Sri Lanka in two days. Zimbabwe travelled in the opposite direction with their huge loss to Sri Lanka. The upshot is, despite two unexpected results, the points table wears the expected look: Sri Lanka on top, Zimbabwe last.

For their second match, which is potentially crucial to their chances of making the final, both India and Zimbabwe will want to bring their A game.

For the second leg of the tournament, play moves to Harare, which should offer clearer weather, giving Zimbabwe a more even playing field.

Their army of spinners will like it, so will their batsmen who struggled when it was overcast in Bulawayo, but made merry when it was sunny. It is not quite the do-or-leave situation, but neither team will want to leave it until they face Sri Lanka, on paper the strongest team in the tournament. Zimbabwe went in with an unchanged combination against Sri Lanka, and despite that loss in a truncated match they will want to retain the XI that smashed India in the first match.

India went in with two specialist spinners because of a warm-up injury to R Vinay Kumar, but unwittingly seemed to have found the right combination.

Teams : Zimbabwe (possible): Hamilton Masakadza, Brendan Taylor (wk),Charles Coventry, Greg Lamb, Craig Ervine, Elton Chigumbura (capt), Andy Blignaut, Graeme Cremer, Prosper Utseya, Chris Mpofu, Ray Price.

India (possible): M Vijay, Dinesh Karthik/Naman Ojha (wk), Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina (capt), Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Ashok Dinda, Pragyan Ojha, Umesh Yadav. Cricinfo