IND vs AUS, Champions Trophy Semi Final: The semi-final match between India and Australia will be played in Dubai on 4 March. The Indian team has been successful in performing brilliantly in its group stage and reached the top by winning all three of its matches. Now India will face Australia in the semi-finals. Let us tell you that when India faced Australia in the final of the 2023 ODI World Cup, the Kangaroos defeated India. Now there is a chance to avenge that defeat. The Indian team will try to reach the final by defeating Australia in the semi-finals. In this match, both the teams will try hard to win, so that they can play the final. In such a situation, this match to be held on Tuesday is going to be very interesting. In such a situation, let us know how has been the record of both the teams in the ICC knockout round.
ICC ODI Knockouts between India and Australia:
Apart from this, a total of 6 matches have been played between the two teams in the ICC ODI Knockouts in which India has won three matches while Australia has won three matches. That is, both the teams are currently at par in the knockout matches.
India and Australia in the knockouts
1998 CT QF – IND won
2000 CT QF – IND won
2003 WC Final – AUS won
2011 WC QF – IND won
2015 WC SF – AUS won
2023 WC Final – AUS won
India and Australia record in ODIs (India vs Australia ODI head-to-head record)
A total of 151 ODI matches have been played between India and Australia in which India has won 57 matches and Australia has won 84 matches. 10 matches were inconclusive.
India has suffered three crushing defeats against Australia
Australia has given India three such defeats in ICC events which fans have not been able to forget till date. First of all, Australia defeated India in the final of the 2003 World Cup, under the captaincy of Ganguly, India had to face a bad defeat in the final of the World Cup 2023. After this, Australia defeated India in the 2015 ODI World Cup semi-final and shattered its hopes of reaching the final. After this, India again faced the biggest defeat in the final of the 2023 ODI World Cup. The Indian team was the host team but Australia defeated India in the final and shattered India’s dream of winning the World Cup for the third time.
Australia’s pride will be broken
Now India has a chance to eliminate Australia from the final of the Champions Trophy. The Indian team will take the field to take revenge. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have not forgotten the defeat of the 2023 ODI World Cup. That defeat had disappointed the players of the Indian team a lot. Now is the chance for the Indian team to break Australia’s pride and eliminate the Kangaroos from the final race.
There will be hope from ‘Roko’
There will be a lot of expectations from Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma (Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma record vs Australia in ODI) in the semi-finals. Both players have a great record against Australia. They have played 45 matches and have managed to score a total of 2379 runs. Rohit has scored a total of 8 centuries against Australia in ODIs so far. On the other hand, Virat Kohli’s record against Australia has been amazing. Kohli has played 49 ODIs against Australia so far in which he has scored 2367 runs. Kohli has also managed to score 8 centuries against Australia in ODIs.
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakravarthy, Arshdeep Singh
Australia: Matthew Short, Travis Head, Steven Smith (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wk), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Aaron Hardie, Sean Abbott, Tanveer Sangha
