The extremely anticipated India vs Pakistan conflict on the Asia Cup 2023 faces a tricky problem from the climate in Kandy with Weather.com predicting thunderstorms and a 90% probability of rain on September 2. According to Google Weather, a thundershower is predicted to happen with probabilities of 90 per cent precipitation and 84 per cent humidity in Kandy. The temperature is predicted to be 28 levels Celsius.

Ahead of the conflict, the Indian males’s cricket crew arrived on the Colombo airport earlier on Wednesday. Experienced batter Virat Kohli and allrounder Hardik Pandya had been seen having a dialog.

In India’s marketing campaign opener towards Pakistan, the Indian crew might be with out star batter KL Rahul who’s progressing nicely from the niggle he picked after recovering from his damage and might be underneath the National Cricket Academy (NCA) supervision until September 4 as confirmed by Dravid in a press convention.

“He (KL Rahul) had a good week with us, he is progressing really well on the route that we want to take, but he will be unavailable for the first part of the Kandy leg of the trip. The NCA will be looking after him while we are travelling. We will reassess him on the fourth (September 4) and we will take it from there. The signs are good and he is progressing really well,” Dravid mentioned.

While Indian skipper Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Shami and India head coach Rahul Dravid had been seen chatting and sharing laughs whereas sitting within the bus.

Pakistan, India and Nepal are in Group Some time Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are in Group B. The match will observe a hybrid mannequin with Pakistan internet hosting 4 matches throughout two venues and Sri Lanka internet hosting the remaining video games.

The six group-stage matches might be adopted by the Super Fours starting September 6.

The remaining might be performed by the highest two groups on the finish of the Super Fours on September 17 in Colombo.

Indian Squad: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya (vice-captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna.

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