India vs Australia T20 World Cup 2024 Taking part in 11: India will face Australia of their closing Tremendous 8 conflict on the Daren Sammy Nationwide Stadium in St Lucia on Monday, hoping to nail down their high spot in Group 1 forward of the semifinals.
Rohit Sharma’s aspect has been unbeaten within the match and is all however by means of to the final 4. Nevertheless, they’d wish to keep away from a heavy defeat towards the wavering Aussies who suffered a shock 21-run defeat towards Afghanistan on Sunday. With little time to make a turnaround, Australia are left with no selection however to go onerous at their nemesis to seal a semifinal spot forward of Afghanistan.
This would be the first time that the 2 groups will meet in a T20 World Cup contest since 2016 when India trumped Australia and moved to the semifinals.
Starc returns for Australia
Left-arm seamer Mitchell Starc was a obvious omission from the XI towards Afghanistan as Australia anticipated the additional spinner in Ashton Agar would do the harm for them towards Afghanistan. Nevertheless, Starc’s left-arm angle and talent with the brand new ball could be simply the enhance Australia will likely be in search of towards the likes of India captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli within the Powerplay.
Australia stay a stable aspect in any other case on paper and are unlikely to ring in additional modifications into the aspect.
India set to again XI
Whereas there are lingering questions over the spots of Shivam Dube and Ravindra Jadeja, India are unlikely to tinker their composition at this stage of the competitors. The workforce administration is prone to again each all-rounders of their roles. Nevertheless, on a flat batting wicket in St Lucia, India could also be tempted to drop one in every of their left-arm spinners (doubtless Kuldeep Yadav) for Mohammed Siraj to assault Australia’s left-handed opening pair of Travis Head and David Warner.
India predicted XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav/Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah.
Australia predicted XI: Travis Head, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh (c), Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade (wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood.
India vs Australia squads
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Hardik Pandya, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj.
Australia: David Warner, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (captain), Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade (wk), Pat Cummins, Ashton Agar, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc, Josh Inglis, Cameron Inexperienced, Nathan Ellis.