IND vs AUS Dream11 Team Prediction: After dominating the ODI series, hosts Australia will enter the T20I series to extend their dominance against visitors India. But going by the form Indian players had in IPL, the task doesn’t look that easy for Australia. Let’s look at the AUS vs IND Prediction.
Fixture: Australia vs India; Australia vs India T20I series
When: 4 December, 0:40 PM IST
Venue: Manuka Oval, Canberra
Head to Head:
Total games: 21
AUS: -8
IND: – 11
NR: 2
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AUS vs IND Playing 11
AUS Team News: D Warner and P Cummins are out due to injury. M Stoinis is not fully fit too.
Playing combination: Who opens with A Finch? Wade partnered Finch against England but we can even see G Maxwell opening the innings. S Smith, M Henriques will form the middle order with A Carey as the finisher. J Hazlewood, M Starc, and A Zampa constitute the bowling artillery.
AUS Playing 11:
Aaron Finch, Matthew Wade, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Moises Henriques, Alex Carey (wk), Ashton Agar, Sean Abbott, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood
IND Team News:
Injuries, unavailability: No injury news.
Playing combination: KL Rahul’s terrific IPL 2020 may prompt the management to make him open with S Dhawan while V Kohli and S Iyer are certain to bat at 3 and 4 respectively and H Pandya will be the finisher at 6. R Jadeja will occupy the place for the bowling all-rounder whil Y Chahal will be the other spinner. J Bumrah will lead the bowling attack while two bowlers among M Shami, S Thakur, T Natarajan and D Chahar will feature in the playing XI.
IND Playing 11:
1 Shikhar Dhawan, 2 KL Rahul, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 M Pandey, 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8. D Chahar 9 Y Chahal 10 Mohammed Shami, 11 Jasprit Bumrah.
In IND vs AUS Dream 11 prediction, AUS will bank on S Smith, A Finch and G Maxwell to get the runs while J Hazlewood will be the key bowler with A Zampa. India’s batting will revolve around the top-order of KL Rahul, V Kohli and S Dhawan while H Pandya will be the X factor. J Bumrah is India’s main bowling weapon.
Wicket-keepers: KL Rahul
Batsmen: S Smith, A Finch, S Dhawan,
All-rounder: G Maxwell, H Pandya
Bowlers: A Zampa, J Hazlewood, T Natarajan, J Bumrah, Y Chahal
Captain and vice-captain:
G Maxwell was in a dream form in the ODI series. He made 167 runs in 3 games including 2 fifties and averaged 83.50. Importantly he had a strike-rate of 194.18 and hammered 11 sixes. Expect him to continue that form in the T20I series as well.
S Smith batted incredibly well in the ODI series and it seems he will pile up more runs in this game too. He made 2 hundreds off 62 balls each and is hitting the ball terrifically.
H Pandya has matured a lot as a batsman and he has achieved that without shelving his six-hitting ability. In the ODI series he made 210 runs at a strike-rate of 114.75 and scored 2 fifties including the match-winning knock of 92* in the last game. He also had a great IPL where he scored 281 runs at a strike rate of 178.98 and blasted 25 sixes.
KL Rahul was unstoppable in the IPL and emerged as the best batsman. He scored 670 runs at an average of 55.83 and had a strike-rate of 129.34. So expect him to bring the same form in the T20I series and he can probably be the opener for Team India.
Australia has dominated the ODI series but Indian players look better prepared for the T20I format. So in the AUS vs IND Dream11 today match prediction, expect IND to win the game.