Australia vs http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World T20 2012
Australia and India are going to be up against each other in their opening Super 8 fixture of the ICC World T20 2012 at Colombo, with both teams looking to make a strong statement in Group 2, which is believed to be the stronger of the two pools.
The Kangaroos lost the T20I series against Pakistan earlier this month in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Raza-Hasan-c84407.
They lost the initial two fixtures but bounced back well in the last T20I at Dubai, and have looked a different team since then.
After thumping http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 side in the second game, as per the Duckworth/Lewis method.
Australia has two of the most destructive T20 batsmen in the shape of Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 and David Warner, with the former being extremely effective with the ball as well. Watson has already earned two Man of the Match awards in the tournament and has looked extremely
threatening.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, the Indian skipper, understands that his bowlers must deliver the goods against the opening duo, before they take the game away from his side.
"They are one of the best because they have done consistently well. Both of them play aggressive cricket and look to score as many runs as possible in the first six overs," said the wicketkeeper/batsman.
India’s bowling can be categorized as one of the weakest in the Super 8 stage, although http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453’s return to form has added potency. However, the Aussie captain thinks that his side can expose the Indian weakness in the death overs.
Bailey said, "What we'd like to focus on is if you can keep some wickets in the shed for the back end then India's bowlers have been put under a bit of pressure and you can score quite well."
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India, on the other hand, has a selection headache followed their victory against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379. In order to strengthen
the bowling attack, the Men in Blue are likely to field five specialist bowlers, which mean that they will need to drop a senior batsman, probably http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739.
Taking into account the great opener’s achievements over the years, it is surely not going to be an easy decision for the team management.
"It is most likely that we will play with five bowlers but what the combination will be... we will see the wicket and it will depend on that as well," Dhoni said.
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With the two teams looking evenly matched, we are surely in for a cracker, provided rain does not intervene.
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