Last Update on: November 22nd, 2023 at 12:17 pm
Visakhapatnam is all set to host the IND vs AUS 1st T20I on November 23, Thursday. India and Australia are all set to play a five-match T20I series starting with the first T20I in Vizag. The series serves as the dress rehearsal for the next year’s T20 World Cup.
The series starts with the first T20I in Visakhapatnam and ends with the fifth and final T20I in Bengaluru on December 3. Both India and Australia are fresh from the ODI World Cup final. However, two very different teams will take on each other with all the senior players from both sides rested.
India will be led by Suryakumar Yadav who endured a tough World Cup with the bat, His knock of 18 off 28 balls was heavily criticized after India’s loss in the final. He now has to lead a side of youngsters in a tough T20I series.
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar are the players named in the series as the management is keen to test the domestic bench strength. Meanwhile, Sanju Samson and Yuzvendra Chahal continue to be benched by the management.
Australia, on the other hand, are led by Matthew Wade. The first-choice players of the national team are rested from their World Cup-winning campaign. All-rounder Aaron Hardie was named as David Warner’s replacement who also pulled out from the series.
Glenn Maxwell, Travis Head, Steve Smith, Josh Inglis, Marcus Stoinis and Adam, Zampa are the key names who were retained for the IND vs AUS T20I series from the World Cup-winning squad. On paper, they look the stronger of the two sides.
IND vs AUS Weather Report Live Today And Pitch Report Of ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam- 1st T20I, 2023
Visakhapatnam will host the first IND vs AUS T20I. The match starts at 7 pm IST. So far nine T20Is have been won at this venue with three matches won by the team batting first and six chasing, The average first innings score is 119 which drops down to almost 100 batting second. However, the conditions are expected to be batting-friendly for the first T20I with dew likely to play a massive role.
Talking about the weather conditions, there is rain expected in the daytime in Vizag as much as 60 percent as per Accuweather. The temperature in the evening will be around 26 degrees with partly cloudy and humid conditions. There will be 98 percent cloud cover in the evening with almost 10 percent chance of rain. With predicted rain in the daytime, the match might be delayed due to ground conditions.
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