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IND VS AUS 1st T20 2020 PREVIEW

 


So After a one sided ODI series, we will move forward to the shortest and most uncertain format of the game...the T20's. Australia won the ODI's and will be high on spirits to take on India at Canberra today. While India who resisted a whitewash and won the 3rd ODI will carry a momentum with them, coming in this match. Players from both the teams participated in the recently concluded IPL 2020 and will be well versed with this format. Last time when both the teams played a T20 series against each other in Australia, the equation was 1-1.Talking about India, there are 2 inclusions to the squad of ODI that will play in the T20's, Sundar and D Chahar comes in place of Gill and Kuldeep. I want to clarify a mistake I did in my preview video which I posted the previous day, I forgot about KL Rahul as an opening option and counted only Agarwal and Samson as replacements of Rohit. Rahul walks straight into the playing xi as an opener after an outstanding IPL 2020. He will open alongside Dhawan, which will create a vacancy at no.5 spot, which is likely to be filled up by Manish Pandey. Shami and Bumrah will be the two premium pacers and most likely Deepak Chahar will play as the third pacer. Jadeja and Chahal will handle the spin department unless India wishes to play Sundar in place of Chahal. Sundar might also play as a third spinner keeping in mind his all round abilities. Coming to Australia, they have kept the same squad which won the ODI series, only one loss for them, David Warner. He got injured in one day series and is out of the T20I's. In his absence, Australia might push Stoinis at the top with Finch, due to his excellent performance as an opener in BBL. Otherwise, there are no chunks in their armour and they look a formidable T20 side on paper. Starc, Cummins and Hazelwood will play as the frontline pacers and Zampa will be their spinner who has impressed a lot in this tour and is a sure shot X-factor in the T20's. Aussies will start as favourites but the format is such where no team is weak or strong, it's just a matter of one good knock and one good spell from a player which changes the whole course of the match, thus India have their best chance in this format. Let us have a look at T20I statistics of Manuka Oval, Canberra.

              

                 T20I STATISTICS AT MANUKA OVAL

  • Total matches played : 1

  • Batting First Won : 0

  • Batting Second Won : 1

  • Tie : 0

  • Avg. Score in 1st bat : 150

  • Highest Score : Pakistan 150/6

  • Lowest Score : Pakistan 150/6

      Scoring Pattern

  • Below Score 150 : 0

  • Score between 150 and 169 : 1

  • Score between 170 and 189 : 0

  • Above Score 190 : 0

 Ideal playing xi of both the teams- 

  • IND -  KL Rahul (wk) (vc), Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (c), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Deepak Chahar, Mohammed Shami, Japrit Bumrah.
  • AUS -  Aaron Finch (c), Marcus Stoinis, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Moises Henriques, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchel Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood.


  • WIN PREDICTOR

        IND 49% - AUS 51%


  • Date - 4 December 2020

  • Place - Manuka Oval, Canberra, Australia

  • Time - 1:40 pm I.S.T



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