On Thursday, Australia and India will meet at the Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium to kick off a five-match T20 international series.
The recollections of the World Cup final between India and Australia are still pictorial, and for the Indian addict, the crack from the loss has slightly begun to heal. It was a spectacular crusade for the hosts that only faltered at the final chain against the potent Aussies. On Thursday, the same two brigades will meet then at the Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA- VDCA Cricket Stadium to protest off a five- match T20 transnational series.
Commonly, India has decided for a new lineup, giving utmost of its World Cup team a important- demanded rest after a gruelling two- and-a-half months starting with the Asia Cup in September. Only three players, Suryakumar Yadav– who’ll lead the platoon- Ishan Kishan, and Prasidh Krishna, continue from the one- day team.
Though justice’s marquee event just ended, the coming big event, the ICC T20 World Cup, is only seven months down. With India set to play just 11 transnational T20 matches from now till June coming time, piecemeal from the Indian Premier League, the medications for the event in the West Indies and the U.S. will begin in humorless then on Thursday.
Since winning the initial T20 World Cup in 2007, India has had a poor run in the event, reaching the peak clash only formerly, in 2014, where it lost to Sri Lanka. In last time’s event in Australia, England blew India down by ten lattices in the semifinals.
The team for this series includes numerous youths, numerous of whom have shown pledge in the IPL and were part of the successful stint to Ireland and at the Asian Games. But the coming ten days will be their first real chance to test their chops against a top- quality transnational outfit and stake a claim for a further harmonious run with the public side.
It’ll be intriguing to see if Ishan Kishan dons the big glove or if Jitesh Sharma, who rehearsed his keeping chops on Wednesday, is the custodian behind the wholes. The series also offers a chance for all- rounder Axar Patel to get back into the groove after missing the World Cup due to a quadricep strain.
On the other hand, Australia will have as numerous as seven players from the World Cup- winning team for this series, with gate- keeper club Matthew Wade leading the side. With conditions in the West Indies probably to be analogous to India, the Men in Yellow will want to make full use of the chance to get some of its youthful players to acclimatize to spinning pitches.
Though Travis Head, Steve Smith, and Glenn Maxwell are part of the team, commander Wade claimed they won’t be dragooned into playing the first match. Despite resting its frontline hearts, Australia has a strong bowling attack led by bellwethers Sean Abbott, Nathan Ellis and Jason Behrendorff, with leg- baits Adam Zampa and Tanveer Sangha to round them.
While the scheduling of this series might not be ideal, coming just four days after an instigative World Cup final, Suryakumar Yadav’s men will look to overcome Sunday’s loss and start medications for India’s coming big target. Know More Latest Cricket News…
