Who: India vs Australia
When: Sunday, November 19, 2023, 2pm (08:30 GMT)
The place: Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, India
Australia captain Pat Cummins says his workforce should “embrace” the problem of going through India, a 130,000-plus Ahmedabad Stadium and the desire of 1.5 billion folks.
The 30-year-old will lead his aspect out in opposition to the Cricket World Cup hosts on Sunday for a last in opposition to and powerful favourites India.
“You’ve got to embrace it, the crowd’s obviously going to be very one-sided,” Cummins mentioned.
“Additionally in sport, there’s nothing extra satisfying [as an opposition player] than listening to a giant crowd go silent and that’s the intention for us.
“You’ve simply received to embrace each a part of it, each a part of a last – you realize within the lead-up there’s going to be noise and extra folks and curiosity and also you simply can’t get overwhelmed.
“You got to be up for it, you got to love it and just know whatever happens it’s fine but you just want to finish the day with no regrets.”
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The precise-arm seamer, 30, has been a lot wanted with the bat, together with within the semifinal in opposition to South Africa.
The highlight of going through the hosts within the last just isn’t one thing that holds any worry for Cummins or his workforce, as most play alongside the Indian gamers within the Indian Premier League.
“We play over here in India a lot so the noise is not something new,” he mentioned.
“On this scale it’s in all probability larger than we’d have skilled earlier than however it’s not one thing completely overseas.
“Everyone deals with it slightly differently – you see Davey (Warner) probably dancing and winning the crowd over, other guys just staying in their own bubble – it should be good.”
Australian legend Jason Gillespie instructed Al Jazeera in his preview of the ultimate that whereas India are an ideal aspect, they’re nonetheless “ripe for the taking”.
The hosts have gained all 10 video games to this stage together with their opening match in opposition to Australia the place they recovered for the lack of three early wickets with solely two runs on the board to chase down 200.
“It’s going to be awesome,” mentioned Cummins. “They’ve been enjoying rather well, undefeated this match.
“But we know at our best we can give them a good shake.”
Australia beat India within the World Check Championship in England earlier this 12 months forward of their Ashes tour which they retained by drawing the sequence.
This is able to mark fairly the exceptional hat-trick for Australia and fairly the double over India.
In return, the frustration of the Check Championship last on the Oval for India can be erased – in all probability a billion-and-a-half occasions over.
Face to face
India have gained 57 of the ODI conferences between these sides whereas Australia have claimed 83 victories.
Probably the most well-known being the 2003 last in Johannesburg, which the Aussies gained by 125 runs.
The final 10 conferences are break up equally however the hosts do have the group-stage victory at this 12 months’s match.
Type
Each groups at the moment are flying on the World Cup. Australia recovered from defeats of their opening two video games to win eight consecutively.
India are an ideal 10 on the match up to now – however will the ultimate be their “banana skin”?
India: W W W W W
Australia: W W W W W
India workforce information
India will solely make a change if a late harm happens. It might be tempting for the hosts to select spinner Ravi Ashwin, had been it not for the harm that dominated Hardik Pandya out of the second half of the World Cup.
With out the allrounder to stability the aspect, India don’t have any alternative however to stay with the three seamers which have served them so will since Pandya limped out of the third match of the match.
Predicted XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj.
Australia workforce information
Australia are prone to be unchanged, however it’s doable they could go for Marcus Stoinis if the resolve to go together with an additional allrounder and take away one of many recognised batters.
Predicted XI: David Warner, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins (c), Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood.
