REVENGE TIME INDIA VS AUSTRALIA T20’s Series Preview

REVENGE TIME

 INDIA VS AUSTRALIA T20’s Series Preview

After getting whitewashed by a humiliating 4-0 margin, the charged up Indian Cricket team will look to take revenge from Australia by beating them in the T20 series. In the recently concluded Border-Gavaskar Series, India was outplayed by the Aussies on all four occasions that included two innings defeats. Come February, and India will get two chances to take sweet revenge from Aussies, who will be complacent after their convincing series win. The two match series will provide a chance for India to re-gain some touch before the even more competitive triseries starts later. For Australia, they will try their best to keep the out-of-form Indians at bay. India and Australia were last seen in a T20 game at Bridgetown in May, 2010 where Australia won by 49 runs. Out of total 4 clashes so far, both team have won two games each. The first match will be played at Sydney while the second match will be played at Melbourne. Australia is currently better ranked than India at No. 5, while India is at No. 7 position, but don’t forget it was India who surprised everybody when they won the inaugural edition of T20 World Cup. India have brought in dynamic limited over’s specialist Suresh Raina while Rohit Sharma was already with them during the test series. It will be testing time for Newcomer’s Rahul Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Vinay Kumar and  Manoj Tiwary . Irfan Pathan makes a comeback to the team while Parthiv Patel retains his place. For Australia, the biggest challenge will be for new Captain George Bailey who has so many expectations in his debut match. Shaun Marsh and David Warner are the only two players that played against India in the tests, Australian strength draws from plenty of fresh legs in the side. 40 year old spinner Brad Hogg makes a comeback to the team after an impressive show in the Big Bash.

AUSTRALIA SQUAD George Bailey (Captain), David Warner (Vice Captain), Travis Birt, Daniel Christian, Xavier Doherty, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Brad Hogg, David Hussey, Brett Lee, Clint McKay, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Matthew Wade (Wicket keeper)

INDIA SQUAD MS Dhoni (Captain), Ravichandran Ashwin, Gautam Gambhir, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Parthiv Patel (Wicket keeper), Irfan Pathan, Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag (Vice Captain), Rohit Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Umesh Yadav, Vinay Kumar, Sachin Tendulkar