BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Australia set a challenging total of 185 for India after Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to field against Australia in the teams' opening Super Eights match of the World Twenty20 at the Kensington Oval here on Friday.
India has to bat extraordinarily well to chase the target successfully. Actually India has to maintain an average of 9.25 from very first ball of their innings. Australian innings paced by their openers two W's, Warner and Watson. Shane Watson blazed six sixes in his 54 to get Australia off to a cracking start against India at the Kensington Oval.
Australia made one change to the team that beat Bangladesh by 27 runs here on Wednesday with left-arm quick Mitchell Johnson, passed fit after an elbow infection, replacing stand-in Ryan Harris.
India made three changes from the side that beat South Africa by 14 runs last time out with opening batsman Gautam Gambhir returning from a stomach illness in place of Dinesh Karthik.
Batsman Rohit Sharma replaced leg-spinner Piyush Chawla and left-arm quick Zaheer Khan came in for fellow paceman Praveen Kumar, out of this tournament with an abdominal injury.
Teams Combination are as follows:
India has to bat extraordinarily well to chase the target successfully. Actually India has to maintain an average of 9.25 from very first ball of their innings. Australian innings paced by their openers two W's, Warner and Watson. Shane Watson blazed six sixes in his 54 to get Australia off to a cracking start against India at the Kensington Oval.
Australia made one change to the team that beat Bangladesh by 27 runs here on Wednesday with left-arm quick Mitchell Johnson, passed fit after an elbow infection, replacing stand-in Ryan Harris.
India made three changes from the side that beat South Africa by 14 runs last time out with opening batsman Gautam Gambhir returning from a stomach illness in place of Dinesh Karthik.
Batsman Rohit Sharma replaced leg-spinner Piyush Chawla and left-arm quick Zaheer Khan came in for fellow paceman Praveen Kumar, out of this tournament with an abdominal injury.
Teams Combination are as follows:
India: 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 M Vijay, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 Yusuf Pathan, 8 Ravindra Jadeja, 9 Harbhajan Singh, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 Ashish Nehra
Australia: 1 David Warner, 2 Shane Watson, 3 Michael Clarke (capt), 4 Brad Haddin (wk), 5 David Hussey, 6 Cameron White, 7 Michael Hussey, 8 Steven Smith, 9 Mitchell Johnson, 10 Dirk Nannes, 11 Shaun Tait
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