IND Vs AUS: The hosts will play their first encounter of the ODI World Cup 2023 against the five-time champions, Australia tomorrow, Sunday, 8th October 2023 at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
This classic encounter between these two great sides will start at 2 PM Indian Standard Time and this match will be shown on Star Sports and Disney+ Hotstar.
The men in the blue side have played against Australia most often in this year of 2023. These two teams have played six matches in the one-day international format and all of these games were played in India.
Australia had won the fifty overs format series when they had also toured India for a red ball series as well.
But the ODI champions of Asia, India continued their good work which they did in the ODI Asia Cup 2023 event and they won their last series of the ODI format against Australia which was played before the ODI World Cup 2023 started. So now both the teams have three wins each under their belt.
India – For the men in blue side, Shubman Gill is unlikely to play the opening encounter against the Aussies because of Dengue fever. So Ishan Kishan will open the innings with skipper RO-HIT Man Sharma.
Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul(wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammed Siraj.
Australia – David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Alex Carey(wk), Marcus Stoinis, Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa and Josh Hazlewood.
The Aussies do not have any injury scares or concerns in their squad at this moment.
Overall Matches from 1980 To 2023 – 149 ODIs
India has won – 56 Games
Australia has won – 83 Matches
India and Australia have played 12 ODI World Cup matches till now. The Aussies have won eight of those matches while the men in the blue side have been winners in just four occasions so far.
1987 – Australia won by one run
India won by 56 runs
1992 – Australia won by one run
1996 – Australia won by 16 runs
1999 - Australia won by 77 runs
2003 – Australia won by nine wickets
Australia won by 125 runs
2011 – India won by five wickets
2015 – Australia won by 95 runs
2019 – India won by won by 36 runs
Batters – Steve Smith, Virat Kohli and Glenn Maxwell
Bowlers – Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav and Adam Zampa
All-rounders – Marcus Stoinis and Hardik Pandya
Wicket-keeper – Alex Carey
Vice-captain – David Warner
Captain – Rohit Sharma
