A series of five T20 International matches will be played between India and Australia starting Thursday, November 23. The first match will be played at the Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. The match will begin at 7:00 pm India time. So let us know what will be the playing XI, pitch report and match prediction of both teams for the game.
Suryakumar Yadav will be India’s captain in the series. While left-handed wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade will take charge of Australia. Most of the young players were included in the Indian squad for the series. The first three matches will feature only two players in the Indian squad who took part in the 2023 World Cup, including captain Suryakumar Yadav and Prasidh Krishna. Although Prasidh Krishna did not play any match in the World Cup. Shreyas Iyer will join the team for the final two games of the series.
The pitch at the Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam is a balanced surface where there is no major difficulty for either the batsmen or the bowlers. This means both pacers and spinners get help on the field. However, it is better to chase runs here as the team that starts later has won 67 percent of the games.
Australia’s 15-man squad includes a total of 6 players who were part of the Kangaroo team at the World Cup. In such a situation, Australia can of course benefit from older players. Therefore, our prediction meter says that it won’t be easy for India to win this match. Australia could be the favorites in this game.
Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel/Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna/Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar.
Steve Smith, Matthew Short, Aaron Hardy, Josh Inglis, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade (captain and wicketkeeper), Sean Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Jason Behrendorff, Tanvir Sangha.