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India vs australia: They may have failed to do so in the past, but this time the Indian team will enter the Champions Trophy semi -finals against Australia on Tuesday, on the basis of spectacular performance and situation, the ICC will intend to heal every wound in the knockout matches of the ICC tournaments.
Along with this, this is also a golden opportunity to avenge the defeat in the World Cup final on its earth in 2023 when Australia had tightened in the final on the ten -match Ashwamedha campaign of India.
This will not be so easy as the Australian team is very strong without Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc. A few days ago, he has once again proved this by achieving a target of 352 against England in Lahore. India last won in the quarter -finals of the 2011 World Cup in the knockout phase of the ICC tournament.
India defeated Australia in the 2015 ODI World Cup semi -finals and 2023 ODI World Cup finals. Apart from this, the World Test Championship final also won the title by defeating India in 2023. This time the Indian team will come down to pay out the failures of fourteen years and the reason for its indispensation is the presence of top -class spinners in the team. Prior to the tournament, the decision to include five spinners in the team was very criticized, but it is now proving to be massestroke on Dubai’s slow pitches.
It is also being said that India is getting the benefit of playing all the matches in Dubai, but the reality is that the Indian team has made efforts to improve their performance. It is not that the pitch is getting so much turn that Indian bowlers have been successful but their restraint has proved to be effective on these pitches. Spinner Varun Chakraborty, who took five wickets in the last league match against New Zealand, said, “There is no pitch rank turnner as people are speaking.” This has definitely given some help but you have to do your best.
Indian spin quartet Chakravarti, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja and Akshar Patel took nine wickets against New Zealand. He bowled 128 dot balls in 39 overs. A patient batsman like Ken Williamson also lost restraint in front of Akshar Patel and KL became a victim of Rahul’s stumping. Australia, on the other hand, have the only expert spinner Adam Jampa. She would expect good performance from irregular spinners Glenn Maxwell and Travis Head.
Matthew is out due to a short calf injury, leading to another spin bowling option from Australia. The Australian bowlers gave 352 and 273 runs against England and Afghanistan respectively and now there are favorable conditions for batting. In such a situation, the challenge of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill will be very difficult.
Captain Rohit said after the match against New Zealand, “This will be a good match. Australia has a history of playing well in ICC tournaments and now we have to correct everything. Hopefully we will be able to do so. ”India’s eyes will be engaged in sending Travis Head and captain Steve Smith to the pavilion early. Especially the head has troubled India a lot in the last few years.
Teams
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakraborty
Australia: Steve Smith (Captain), Sean Abbut, Alex Carrie, Ben Divarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-Macagark, Aaron Hardy, Travis Head, Josh English, Spencer Johnson, Marnas Labushen, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangh, Matthew Short and Adam Jampa
Match time: From 2.30 pm
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