They have found the perfect rhythm of batting on these sluggish tracks here.
Skipper Rohit hoped as much.
“It is going to be a good game. Australia has a rich history of playing well in ICC tournaments. Now, it’s up to us to do things right. We have to be focussed on what we need to do on that day. Looking forward to that, hopefully we can stitch one towards us,” he said after the match against New Zealand.
But he will not be unaware of the batting might the Aussies possess as the latter hunted down a 350-plus target without any meaningful contribution from Head and captain Steve Smith.
India will certainly want to evict them at the earliest, particularly Head as he has been the team’s nemesis in recent years.
It is also a chance for Rohit and his company to mitigate the still lingering pain of losing to Australia in the 2023 World Cup final in Ahmedabad.
This match could be slow burner, but brace for a cracker nonetheless.
Teams
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohd. Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Australia: Steve Smith (c), Sean Abbott, Alex Carey, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Adam Zampa, Cooper Connolly.
Match starts at 2.30 pm IST.
