3 Players To Watch In IND vs AUS 1st T20I: Just four days after Australia and India contested the World Cup 2023 final, both teams will kick-start their preparations for next year’s T20 World Cup, which is about 7 months away, to be played in the West Indies.
It will be a 5-match T20I series from November 23 to December 3. The first match will be played in Visakhapatnam.
Most of the players who were part of the World Cup final have been rested from this year. Those selected now have a good opportunity to showcase their T20 skills and make their cases to be included in the shortest-format squads next year. India will be captained for the first time by Suryakumar Yadav, while Matthew Wade will lead Australia.
The surface in Visakhapatnam is more friendly to the bowlers than the batters. Both of these teams met in an ODI here in March, when India were bundled out for merely 117 as Mitchell Starc led a rout. India and Australia also featured in a T20I in Vizag in 2019. India scored only 126, and Australia, too, struggled in the chase, getting over the line on the last ball of the chase.
3 Players To Watch In IND vs AUS 1st T20I:
Suryakumar Yadav
All eyes will be on Suryakumar Yadav. Not because he will be leading India for the first time, but because he returns to his best format – T20 cricket – after an underwhelming year in ODI cricket, which culminated in a disappointing show in the World Cup. Suryakumar managed only 106 runs at an average of 17 in the World Cup, and scored only 18 runs in the final, leading to huge criticism.
In T20Is, however, SKY is a beast and is the number 1 ranked ICC T20I batsman. Expect the Mumbai star to once again entertain the fans with his thrilling stroke-making.
Travis Head
Not many opposition players have produced such a thumping batting performance against the Indian bowling in the past couple of years in ODI cricket as Travis Head did in the World Cup final in Ahmedabad.
As per the 3 Players To Watch In IND vs AUS 1st T20I, the left-handed opener smashed 137 sizzling runs with 15 fours and 4 sixes. Head, who can also bowl part-time off-spin, must have already impressed the IPL franchise owners. Similar cracking performances in this 5-T20I series will further increase his value in the IPL 2024 auction next month.
Adam Zampa
Sometimes Adam Zampa doesn’t get the status of being considered amongs the best white-ball leg-spinners in the world, despite having played a crucial role in Australia’s T20 World Cup 2021 title win.
According to Three Players to watch in 1st T20I India vs Australia, Zampa showed his class in the World Cup 2023 by taking 23 wickets, which included 3 four-wicket hauls, and was a big contributor to Australia’s 9-match winning streak after losing the first two matches. The last time India and Australia played a T20I in Vizag, Zampa scalped the big wicket of Virat Kohli.
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