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India look to seal T20 series against Australia

India look to seal T20 series against Australia

October 09, 2017 | 11:25 PM
Australiau2019s captain David Warner (right) plays football with teammates during a training session in Guwahati, India. (AFP)
In-formIndia will look to continue their domination of Australia and seal thethree-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series at the Barsaparastadium today.India, who are ranked fifth, started the T20 series ona winning note outclassing the visitors in every department to registera nine-wicket victory via the Duckworth/Lewis method in a rain-marredmatch in Ranchi on Saturday. The hosts, who produced a brilliantall-round show in the previous match, will hope to deliver a similarperformance.The batting department will largely be dependent on hardhitting batsmen Rohit Sharma, skipper Virat Kohli, Mahendra Singh Dhoniand Hardik Pandya. Batsmen Shikhar Dhawan, Manish Pandey and KedarJadhav will only look to adding depth to the formidable India batting.Kohlimight also fancy including veteran pacer Ashish Nehra in the team.Pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar will spearhead the bowlingdepartment for the hosts. Wrist spinners Yuzvendra Chahal and KuldeepYadav will look to provide brakes on the Australian batting which failedto look lethal in the previous match. The seventh ranked Australianside will look to re-work on their strategies to get back to winningways in the T20I series. Skipper David Warner along with Aaron Finch andGlenn Maxwell will be the key batsmen for the visitors to get them offto a flying start. The bowling will largely depend on pacer NathanCoulter-Nile and spinner Adam Zampa, who failed to click in the lastT20I.
October 09, 2017 | 11:25 PM