India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia captain Pat Cummins won the toss and chose to bat first at the MA Chidambaram Stadium as his side and hosts India start off their 2023 World Cup campaigns. Ravichandran Ashwin is in the Indian squad and Ishan Kishan will open the batting, with Shubman Gill not even travelling with the team to the stadium. India got off to a flier with Jasprit Bumrah dismissing opener Mitchell Marsh in the third over. Steve Smith and David Warner then steadied the proceedings for Australia with a 69-run stand that came in 85 balls before the latter fell to Kuldeep Yadav. On paper, neither team starts favourites. Sure enough, India defeated a depleted Australian team in the first two matches of the three-match ODI series 10 days ago, but the moment Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Starc returned for the dead-rubber, the Aussies looked like a different team altogether.
And yet, India arguably still hold the edge. With their top players back from injuries, the Men in Blue have once again become a force to reckon with, clinching the Asia Cup and reasserting their dominance just before the World Cup. Jasprit Bumrah is making the new ball swing like a frisbee, KL Rahul has found his second-coming in the middle order, Shreyas Iyer has scored a century on return and Kuldeep Yadav is riding on a high of a newly-rediscovered confidence.
India will most probably be forced to make a change at the top of the order. Shubman Gill has been down with dengue in the days before this match and, as it turns out, hasn’t even travelled with the team to the Chepauk Stadium. It is likely that Ishan Kishan will open the batting with Rohit Sharma. Gill landed in Chennai with a bit of fever and wearing a mask. And after skipping India’s first optional session on Thursday, was diagnosed with dengue. Although coach Rahul Dravid hasn’t ruled him out completely, the prospect of him participating looks highly unlikely given the body needs a considerable amount of time to recover from the early signs of the disease and then breaking out of weakness. In Gill’s absence, Ishan Kishan will get another crack as opener, where he has had a reasonable amount of success, including scoring the fastest-ever ODI double century. Also, the No. 8 conundrum is real. The temptation of going ahead with either Ravichandran Ashwin or Shardul Thakur is legit. But Chennai’s black-soil pitch may just give the off-spinner the go-ahead. After all, at Chepauk, Ashwin has always proven to be quite the handful.
As for Australia, they are on a mission too. After four consecutive defeats – three against South Africa and two versus India – they hit their strides in the final ODI at Rajkot. But there are still several boxes to be checked. The last time Australia played in Chennai was back in March this year when they secured a 21-run victory over India, thanks in part to Adam Zampa’s impressive 4/45 performance. Zampa may pose a challenge once again for India, although Rohit Sharma and his team have a couple of reasons to breathe easy. Marcus Stoinis’ injury puts his availability in doubt, and Travis Head won’t be available for the first two weeks of the World Cup at least.
The World Cup, which has received less than favorable reviews thus far due to the lack of crowds, may finally experience a revival. It’s a Sunday, and with the home team playing, we can anticipate Chepauk to fill up early in the afternoon. Cricket enthusiasts here have a deep love for the sport, not just Indian cricket. Which is why the World Cup might truly come alive with an India-Australia showdown to kick off the excitement.
Here are the key pointers surrounding the India vs Australia World Cup clash:
– Australia won the toss and chose to bat first
– Jasprit Bumrah got an early breakthrough, dismissing Mitchell Marsh in the third over
– India have included Ravichandran Ashwin in the squad while Ishan Kishan will open the batting with Rohit Sharma in the absence of Shubman Gill.
– India have beaten Australia just four times in the history of the World Cup.
– Virat Kohli is the only player in the current Indian squad who has scored an ODI century at Chepauk.
– Australia are unbeaten at Chepauk in World Cup matches, having won all their three previous games so far.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:42 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia 89/2 in 22 overs
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:28 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia 76/2 in 18 overs
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Smith on 34 off 45 and Marnus Labuschagne is the new batter. He has scored one off five.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:20 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: OUT! KULDEEP GETS THE BREAKTHROUGH!
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Third ball of the 17th is full around off. Warner tries to drill it down the ground but it comes off the toe-end of the bat. It bursts to Kuldeep who responds well and pouches it. The partnership ends at 69 off 85.
Warner c & b Kuldeep Yadav 41 (52), Australia 74/2 in 16.3 overs
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:14 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: FOUR! Easy pickings for Warner
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Kuldeep stays on to Warner’s pads and he just tickles it fine. Just another single in that over and Australia are 71/1. Drinks taken and the Australians need a couple of chairs to cool their bodies down. They are doing the batting so easy that it doesn’t look like they are struggling in the heat so much.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:10 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia 66/1 in 14 overs
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Warner on 35 off 39, Smith on 31 off 39. It is Kuldeep and Ashwin now alternating. Warner and Smith using all their experience to negotiate this phase and how well they have done thus far.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:09 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: FOUR!
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Warner skips down the track to Ashwin first ball of the 14th and crashes it through cover. Warner has done really well in dealing with Ashwin thus far.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:02 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia 54/1 in 12 overs
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Warner is on 26 off 30, Smith on 28 off 36. Kuldeep Yadav has been brought in for the 13th over.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:55 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: FOUR! Smith continues
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Pandya with a short one for the fourth ball of the 11th and Smith pulls it emphatically through midwicket. Australia 51/1 in 10.4 overs.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:53 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: FOUR! Smith looking good
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: These two are punishing India as soon as they get anything that is a tad bit too full outside off. This one from Pandya is smashed down the ground by Smith.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:52 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: FOUR!
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Warner times it perfectly off the fifth ball of the 10th bowled by home boy Ashwin. It goes through that packed off side to the boundary. Just perfect timing. Australia 43/1 in 9.5 overs
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:50 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia 36/1 in 9 overs
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Warner on 19 off 21, Smith on 17 off 27. Both players are quite watchful at the moment but how India would be wary of the danger of letting these two bat for too long.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:44 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Warner surpasses Tendulkar
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: David Warner has gone past 1000 World Cup runs. He has got there in 19 innings, which makes him the fastest to that landmark. The record was previously held jointly by Sachin Tendulkar and AB de Villiers at 20. Viv Richards and Sourav Ganguly are joint third on 21.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:43 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: FOUR! Australia 29/1 in 7 overs
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Smith hits the last ball of that over from Pandya back down the ground. 13 runs off that over and Pandya has run back to the dressing room after that.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:38 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: FOUR!
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Warner smashes the fourth ball of the over the man at fine leg, it takes a bounce and goes over the boundary.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:31 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: FOUR! Warner gets one off Pandya
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Full from Pandya, Warner smashes it back down the ground. It hits Pandya’s fingers and careens down the ground to the boundary. Pandya needing some treatment on that finger after that. No way he was catching that, it was hit back at probably the same speed that it came to Warner. Australia 20/1 in 6.2 overs.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:28 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Maiden for Siraj
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Aaron Finch notes in the commentary box that this is probably the longest he has seen Siraj bowl without sending in a bouncer. He has largely stuck to a length or just slightly fuller. Siraj is left crouching at the end of the over and is then placed at the boundary where he gets some shoulder rubs from the physio. It is seething hot and fast bowling is hard work. Hardik Pandya comes in for the seventh over, replacing Jasprit Bumrah.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:25 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia 16/1 in 5 overs
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Warner is on five off 10, Smith on 11 off 14. Bumrah has been sensational in his first three overs.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:21 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: FOUR!
Bumrah pitches it up for the first ball of the fifth, Smith leans into a perfect cover drive. Australia are 15/1 in 4.1 overs, Smith has moved to 10 off 10.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:17 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: A record for Kohli
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: That was Kohli’s 15th catch in the World Cup, the most for any Indian player who is not a wicketkeeper in the history of the tournament. He went past Anil Kumble’s 14. Kapil Dev and Sachin Tendulkar are joint third with 12.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:11 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: GONE! BUMRAH GETS THE BREAKTHROUGH!
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: And that is thanks to a good sharp catch by Virat Kohli at first slip. Mitchell Marsh is gone. Short of a length from Bumrah with some extra bounce outside off. Marsh hangs his bat out, outside edge and it flies to Kohli’s left, he takes the catch and tumbles once before celebrating with the rest of the team.
Marsh c Kohli b Bumrah 0 (6), Australia 5/1 in 2.2 overs
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:06 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: FOUR! Warner welcomes Siraj
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Siraj comes in from the other end, full and on off first ball and Warner crashes it past backward point for the first four of the innings.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:04 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia 1/0 in 1 over
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Warner took a single off the second ball after which Marsh saw off the rest of the over.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:02 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Some movement straightaway!
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Bumrah comes in over the wicket for the first ball to Warner, bangs it in at a length around 136kph, it shapes away and fizzes past Warner’s bat to the keeper. Big ‘Oooooo’s around the ground when that happened.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:01 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: The players walk out!
The first time India hosted a World Cup in 1987, A David and a Marsh had opened for Australia and it is the same today. Back then, it was David Boon and Geoff Marsh. Today it is David Warner and Geoff’s son Mitchell Marsh. Jasprit Bumrah is bowling the first over.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:55 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: The National Anthems!
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: First comes Australia’s “Advance Australia Fair” and then India’s “Jana Gana Mana”. The crowds are slowly but steadily building up in the stands. Feel it…..
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:52 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: The pitch
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Ravi Shastri says that the pitch could be two-paced, little bit on the slower side. :Fast bowling won’t be easy either, especially back of the length,” he said. The former India head coach further said that the team should be wary of Adam Zampa on this surface.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:46 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: India XI
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:40 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia XI
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Cameron Green, Alex Carey(w), Glenn Maxwell, Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Adam Zampa
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:40 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Rohit Sharma’s thoughts
Rohit Sharma reckons that the wicket is “slightly on the slower side”. He says that the bowlers need to understand their lines and lengths early though. Like Cummins, he says that the fact that India played a lot of cricket before the World Cup has helped them cover a lot of bases. He confirms that Ishan Kishan will open the batting in Shubman Gill’s absence.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:37 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: What Pat Cummins said
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: The Australian captain confirmed that there is no Travis Head. “We’ll bat first, looks like a good wicket. Sun is out, good opportunity to bat,” he said. Cummins further said that the team is in a good spot considering the number of matches they have played in the last few weeks. Apart from head, Josh Inglis also misses out.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:33 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: TOSS ALERT!
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia have won the toss and chosen to bat first
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:22 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: World Cups hosted by India
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: This may be the fourth time that this tournament is being played in India but it is the first time that the country is hosting it exclusively. The 1987 World Cup was co-hosted by India and Pakistan, which marked the first time that this tournament was played anywhere but in England. Then, in 1996, India hosted it with Pakistan and Sri Lanka and in 2011, India hosted it with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. On two of these three occassions, the final was hosted in India – It was played at the Eden Gardens in 1987 and the Wankhede Stadium in 2011. The final of the 1996 World Cup wsa hosted at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:18 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Kohli at the Chepauk Stadium
Virat Kohli is the second highest run scorer of all time in ODIs played at the Chepauk Stadium and the only player in the current Indian squad to have scored an ODI century here. He has 337 runs in eight matches at an average of 42.12 with one century and three half centuries. Who is the highest scorer of all time at the Chepauk? Well, think yellow, but not in an Australian sense. Just to give you the stats, Kohli’s former India captain has scored 401 runs in six matches with two centuries and a half century and an average of 100.25. Still don’t get it? Well think of Tamil word for ‘leader’. Still don’t get it? Well then, I hope it is nice and cool under that rock.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:08 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Bumrah vs Warner in ODIs
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Not many batters in the world who has faced Jasprit Bumrah can say that they have never been dismissed by him but that is exactly what David Warner can boast about. Bumrah has bowled to Warner 122 times in ODIs and not once has the Australian opener fallen.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:01 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: When India won in 2011
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: “Seeing the response of the whole country and how much joy it brought. There was a switch that went off,” said KL Rahul on Star Sports while talking about the 2011 World Cup. India’s victory in 2011 also started a bit of a trend of the hosts winning the tournament – Australia won it in Australia in 2015 while England won it in England in 2019.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 12:46 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: No Gill in the team bus!
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Well, the decision seems to have been made already. Shubman Gill hasn’t even travelled with the team to the Chepauk Stadium. Unless he is planning to arrive separately in the Chennai local MRTS trains and walk from the Chepauk station, he is ruled out of today’s game.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 12:27 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Hardik Pandya and Steve Smith
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: India’s frontline pace-bowling all-rounder seems to have the wood on Australia’s best. Pandya has dismissed Smith five times in 75 balls. Don’t be surprised if he is brought on as first change in case Smith in early.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 12:14 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Ashwin and left-handers
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Ravichandran Ashwin was a last-minute inclusion for India after Axar Patel’s injury was confirmed. The veteran spinner is a nightmare to bat against in India, particularly if one is a left-hander, such as David Warner and Alex Carey in this Australian team. Warner had in fact resorted to playing right handed against him in the second ODI, and perished in the process.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 12:02 PM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Maxwell’s all-round revelation
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Glenn Maxwell’s ability to bowl a bit was always common knowledge. However, he has turned himself into a genuine all-rounder in ODI cricket over the last couple of years. Since 2020, Maxwell has averaged 28.53 with the ball. It is the reason why Australia will have no qualms going into the matches in the World Cup with just one genuine spinner in Adam Zampa.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 11:53 AM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Green over Stoinis for Australia?
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Marcus Stoinis had missed the practice games and head coach Andrew McDonald later revealed that the all-rounder had a hamstring problem. “he’ll be touch and go for the first game against India,” he had said. Green had a terrible time of it in the three-match ODI series against India before this World Cup but found some form against Pakistan in the warm-ups. McDonald, however, hopes to fit both Stoinis and Green in the side.
“Over the last 18 months, we’ve had a pretty clear way that we want to build three ways of playing. One of those ways is definitely with all the allrounders and potentially two quicks, and you’ve seen that side in the past 18 months being played, so there is a real possibility that both of those players can be in the same XI and we haven’t ruled that out,” he said.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 11:43 AM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Rohit Sharma on winning the World Cup
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: “You heard the great man say so many times that you know, until he wins the World Cup, he’s got a bit of unfinished business. I’m sure you know who I’m talking about. So it’s the same for us as well. You want to win the World Cup, It’s the biggest prize that you can have in your career. But again, there’s a way to do it. There’s a procedure that you need to follow. There’s a process to it […] It’s good to be desperate. It’s good to be hungry. But you’ve got to find that balance, right? […] You cannot get way too ahead of yourself because that can lead into something that you don’t really wish for.”
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 11:36 AM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: The weather
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Chances of this match being disrupted by rain is miniscule but showers have been forecast. If they come, it will be around the time the match starts but is expected to be so low that the players might not even go off. A warm afternoon that could evolve into a humid, sultry evening.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 11:28 AM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: If not Gill then…
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: It seems quite obvious that it will be Ishan Kishan opening the batting with Rohit Sharma if not for Shubman Gill. KL Rahul has pretty much owned the No.5 spot and has put in some crucial performances from that position over the last couple of years and so India would be looking to keep him there.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 11:15 AM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Gill this year
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: There are not shortage of options for India in the opening slot and yet, fans are hoping that Shubman Gill would be fit to play today. Apart from not wanting the team composition to be messed up, Gill’s extraordinary year in ODI cricket is a reason for this. In 2023, Gill has scored 1230 runs in 20 matches at an average of 72.35 and a strike rate of 105.03 with five centuries and five half centuries to boot. These numbers are despite a dip in form a month ago.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 11:06 AM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Adam Zampa vs Indian batters
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Adam Zampa hasn’t been good news for Indian batters. He took 4/45 and was the Player of the Match here in Chennai when Australia won a series decider in March. He enjoys a positive head-to-head against several Indian batters. In ODIs, he’s dismissed Kohli five times, Rohit, Hardik and Rahul four times each.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 10:57 AM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Shubman Gill
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Shubman Gill seems to be dealing with a bout of dengue and if that is the case, there is very little chance of him playing today, despite what head coach Rahul Dravid said. “He’s feeling better today and the medical team is monitoring him on a day-to-day basis. We will take a call on him later. The medical team hasn’t ruled him out yet. We’ll see how he feels the day after tomorrow,” he said.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 10:44 AM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Kuldeep Yadav’s resurgence
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: What is with Kuldeep Yadav and World Cups? Just before the 2019 World Cup, he and Yuzvendra Chahal were the spin bowling pair the world couldn’t handle. At the tournament they didn’t have too great a time of it and since then the pair’s international appearances dwindled, especially in the case of Kuldeep. However, it has been pretty clear in the home stretch of this run to the World Cup that India have zeroed in on Kuldeep as their only pure spin bowling option and hasn’t he delivered. It is the middle overs in which Kuldeep really comes alive, he has taken 39 wickets at an average of 20.03 in the middle-overs (11-40) since 2022.
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 10:36 AM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Pat Cummins on the Indian conditions
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: “I’ve probably played more white-ball cricket in India than I have in Australia over the last 10 years, so it’s conditions we know really well. And I think the positive thing is that we’ve played some really good one-day cricket against India over here over the last few years so we can draw back on that and that can be front of mind.”
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Sun, 08 Oct 2023 10:30 AM
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: Australia full squad
India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023: David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood, Sean Abbott, Travis Head, Marcus Stoinis, Josh Inglis