World Cup: Tough Aus test looms for Bumrah & Co

LONDON: Another rainy and gloomy day, another practice session cancelled. How the Indian staff should be hoping for sunshine! Southampton was dangerous, London has been worse. The staff had scheduled a convention session from 10 am at the Oval on Friday, ahead of the large conflict towards Australia on Sunday. But a gradual drizzle, which began in the morning and continued for a number of hours, intended that the players may no longer mission out of their hotel rooms.

The forecast for Saturday and Sunday is encouraging and the groups should be capable of train on Saturday and contest a full recreation on Sunday. The match, regardless that, is probably not a high-scoring one if it remains overcast.

Any India-Australia conflict is a marquee match-up. It’s a rivalry which has, over the last 20 years, received a dynamics of its personal. The battles they have fought were sour and have ceaselessly dished out cricket of a very high order. Their World Cup league match on Sunday is but another heavily anticipated tie between two fancied sides.

Statistically, Australia grasp the upper hand over India with 77 wins in 136 one-day internationals between the 2 groups. India have 49 victories in the bag, which means a triumph on Sunday might be their 50th over the arch-rivals. Stats, regardless that, received’t subject for the rest as the groups are well matched. One will also be positive it’s going to be an in depth contest with out a protagonists giving an inch.

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Australia are on the rise after going thru a horror time in 2018, after they misplaced 11 of the 13 video games they played, including a streak of seven immediately losses, their worst-ever in ODIs. In 2019, they have controlled to stem the tide, successful 11 of the 15 ODIs contested so far. Incidentally, their resurgence began in India where they shocked the hosts 3-2 in the ODI sequence after being Zero-2 down. Bolstered additional since then by means of the return of main batsmen Steve Smith and David Warner, and pace spearhead Mitchell Starc, Australia have a depth and high quality few groups can match.

Australia will pose some of the severest assessments for the Indians at this World Cup, a test which is able to assist India to gauge how ready they're for the long haul in this event. Their ways might be examined, so might be their temperament. Australia have always been the staff to overcome at World Cups and it’s no different this time too.

However, for India, it’s best the second of the nine league video games they have to play. A loss on Sunday might be a setback they are able to rather well recover from. Win or lose, India might be satisfied if men like Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul and Kedar Jadhav have good outings in the heart. These batsmen need the boldness of runs in the back of them. The bowling unit was very skilled in useful prerequisites at Southampton towards South Africa. Oval might be a unique situation, towards a significantly better batting outfit.

On the turn aspect, Australia too could be wary of India who've the wherewithal to counter regardless of the Aussies might throw at them. But to thwart an opponent like Australia, the large weapons of the staff should boom. It’s an excessive amount of to expect the beef up solid to play lead roles towards a staff like Australia.

That apart, cricket throws up unlikely heroes every now and then. On Thursday, it was Nathan Coulter-Nile who received the day for Australia towards West Indies with a breathtaking 92 off 60 balls.

With no training at the Oval on Friday, Kohli and Dhawan had indoor nets whilst the remainder of the players hit the health club. The staff might be hoping for a full practice session on Saturday. Let’s see what the elements gods be mindful.