Indian team management made a plan to defeat Australia at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Now the ICC has turned water on the plan of Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir.
A big ‘game’ with Team India has been played before the semifinal match on March 4. Team India will now have to land with a new strategy to reach the final.
ICC played with Team India
To win the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, Team India spread the spinners. As a result, 5 spinners were given a chance. In the match against New Zealand, Indian team management played 4 spinners in Playing 11. The decision benefited the team and India beat New Zealand by 44 runs.
In this situation, it was expected that the Indian team could land with 4 spinners in the semifinal match against Australia. Now this plan has failed by the ICC. According to media reports, the semifinal match will be played on a new pitch. In this situation, spinners do not get much help on the new pitch. Now Team India can land in the semifinals with only 3 spinners.
Learn how the pitch will be
If we talk about a pitch, a new ball in Dubai helps fast bowlers, while the old ball is in favor of spinners. The batsmen have to spend some time first to make a run on this pitch. It is easy to make a run for the batsman set on this pitch. But playing big shots as soon as you come to the game can damage the new batsmen.
So far, a total of 61 ODI matches have been played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. In which the batting team has won 23 matches, while chasing the target, the team has won 36 matches. The average score of the first innings on this pitch is 219 runs. The average in the second innings is only 193 runs. Team India has defended the target on the field and successfully chased the target.
Potential playing eleven of both teams
Team India – Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubhman Gill (Vice -Captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty, Mohammad.
Australia Team – Jack Fraser -McGark, Travis Head, Steve Smith (Captain), Marnas Labushen, Josh English (wicketkeeper), Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarkis, Nathan Alice, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson, Sean.
