India captain Virat Kohli insists Tymal Mills doesn’t scare him ahead of first T20 against England
VIRAT KOHLI has told England’s T20 speed king Tymal Mills: You don’t scare me.
England are set to unleash Mills — who is capable of bowling over 90mph — on India today in Kanpur.
But skipper Kohli, who has destroyed the tourists’ attack so far this winter, sneered: “Ninety miles an hour is no problem.
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“They have brought him in as a T20 specialist and he might have skills required for this format but I have faced many 90mph bowlers before.”
England skipper Eoin Morgan defended Mills, 24. He said: “He’s had a fantastic winter — the fitness he’s shown with his injury-prone past has been great and allowed him to play a lot of T20 cricket.
“Being able to bowl and to play consistently at the moment is a huge positive. To bowl at the pace he is is even better.”
Mills became a T20 specialist after a back injury stopped him being able to bowl more than four overs in a match.
He can bowl close to 95mph as he showed last summer when he destroyed the stumps of West Indies star Chris Gayle in the T20 Blast.
And he is expected to take the new ball in the first T20.
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Morgan believes that the win in the final one-dayer can help England triumph in the T20s.
He said: “The guys are feeling more confident than they maybe were after game two of the one-day series. They did a lot of hard work and didn’t get much reward.”
Joe Root is fit again after a groin niggle, but David Willey is ruled out with a shoulder injury.
India have rested spinners Ravi Ashwin and Ravi Jadeja.
INDIA (possible): Kohli (capt), Rahul, Raina, Dhoni (wk), Yuvraj, Pandya, Rasool, Mishra, Kumar, Bumrah, Nehra.
ENGLAND (possible): Roy, Billings, Root, Morgan (capt), Buttler (wk), Stokes, Moeen, Dawson, Jordan, Plunkett, Mills.