Individual battles.
Cricket is a team game. But the 2nd Semi-final of ICC World Twenty20 2016 will be more of individual players taking on each other than the whole team. The contest on paper might look between India and West Indies. But Chris Gayle vs R Ashwin and Virat Kohli vs Samuel Badree will emerge as the centre stage. Leave aside all the names, there are two main points to this game. An off-spinner bowling to a left-hand batsman is exciting to see. Similar is the case when a leg spinner bowls to a right hand batsman. The first point will hold true if the Gayle storm arrives in Mumbai. If it happens, not only the city but the whole country might get affected. Such is the supremacy of the big man. The Director General of the Meteorological department in MS Dhoni will have only one option to stop it, i.e., R Ashwin. He has had the better of Gayle in the past. From dismissing him to restricting him, both have been a walk in the park for Ashwin in all T20Is. The second point might not be th