The Champions Trophy enters its business end as India take on familiar foes Australia in the first semifinal in Dubai on Tuesday. With all the outside noise about India having the advantage of staying put in Dubai and playing all their matches there while other have to travel, skipper Rohit Sharma on Monday rubbished the claim saying that the pitches have offered challenges for them too.
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Australia have been one of India’s bogey teams when it comes to ICC knockout ties with the Men in Blue having failed to defeat them since the 2011 World Cup quarterfinals. They have notched up wins against them in Group stage as well as Super 8 matches, most recently in the T20 World Cup 2024 but have failed to defeat the Aussies when it matters the most. The last time these two sides met in an ICC 50-over event, the Aussies had come out on top on that fateful day in Ahmedabad when they defeated India to become the 2023 ODI World Cup champions.
India vs Australia pitch report
The pitch in Dubai have been more on the sluggish side as compared to the high scoring pitches back in Pakistan. With India packing their team with quality spinners, expect them to utilize them on the surface which assists tweakers. Australia are coming into the semifinal having played in just high-scoring pitches and will likely have to alter their strategy for the Dubai surface.
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India vs Australia weather report
According to AccuWeather, the temperature in Dubai for Tuesday’s match is said to be around 30 degrees in the afternoon with the conditions being hazy. In the evening, the temperature will come down to around 22 degrees and it’ll be partly cloudy but no rain is expected.
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Squads
India: Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Rishabh Pant, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana
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Australia: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Travis Head, Steven Smith(c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis(w), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson, Sean Abbott, Aaron Hardie, Tanveer Sangha, Cooper Connolly