Durban: Rain in Durban resulted in India’s opening match of the ICC World Twenty20 against Scotland being abandoned without a ball being bowled. India and Scotland shared two points.

Now India have to avoid a heavy defeat against Pakistan on Friday to make it through to the Super Eight stage from group D. Scotland finished their engagements with a point after the 51-run defeat to Pakistan in their opening game.

Uncertainty looms over the India-Pakistan clash as the met department has predicted a good 60 per cent chance of rain in the evening.

Earlier, Ryan Watson won the toss and decided to send India in to bat. The following are the teams that were announced for Thursday’s match.

TEAMS

India: Virender Sehwag, Robint Uthappa, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan, Rudra Pratap Singh, Ajit Agarkar, Sreesanth.

Scotland: D.F. Watts, R.R. Watson, N.S. Poonia, G.M. Hamilton, N.F.I. McCallum, D.R. Brown, C.J.. Smith, R. Haq, C.M. Wright, J.A.R. Blain, J.D. Nel.

(Agencies)