The T20 match will be played between India and Australia at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati today (November 28). This could be the deciding game of the five-match T20 series. This is because Team India is ahead 2-0 in this series. In such a situation, it can take an unassailable lead in the series with a win in this third game. It also appears to be much stronger than Australia. However, there is one fact that weakens Team India’s upper hand here.
In fact, where the game is being played today, the Australian and Indian teams have already met in T20 cricket. This game was played 6 years ago on October 10, 2017. Then the Australian team had badly defeated the star-studded Indian team. In this match, the Kangaroos had initially defeated the Indian team by just 118 points and later reached the target easily while losing just two wickets.
In this game six years ago, India’s captaincy was in the hands of Virat Kohli while Australia’s captaincy was taken by David Warner. Here Warner won the toss and chose to bowl first and fast bowler Behrendorff completely destroyed Team India’s top order. Within five overs, Behrendorff sent Rohit Sharma (8), Shikhar Dhawan (2), Virat Kohli (0) and Manish Pandey (6) to the pavilion.
After losing four wickets for 27 runs, Team India somehow reached 118. The innings of Kedar Jadhav (27), Dhoni (13), Hardik Pandya (25) and Kuldeep Yadav (16) saved India from going below 100. Later, Australia fought brilliantly and won the game in just 15.3 overs. Again, Australia lost both their openers as they totaled 13 runs, but the century partnership of Moises Henriques (62) and Travis Head (48) snatched the game away from India.
In this match, Jason Behrendorff, who took 4 big wickets for 21 runs in 4 overs, was voted Player of the Match. Behrendorff will also be part of the Australian team in today’s game (November 28th). Now it will be interesting to see whether he can show such charismatic bowling again or not.