India vs Australia ICC World Cup final prediction: Who’ll win IND vs AUS match? Fantasy team, pitch report and more
World Cups, they have faced off 13 times as of now. Australia won 8 of those and India 5. In the last 5 World Cup encounters between these two teams, India have won thrice and Australia twice.
In the ICC World Cup 2003 final, Australia beat India by 125 runs. In 2011, India won by 5 wickets. In 2015, Australia won by 95 runs while India won by 36 runs in 2019.
This year, India played against Pat Cummins’ boys on October 8 and won by 6 wickets. Rohit Sharma (C), David Warner, Virat Kohli, Steven Smith, KL Rahul (WK), Glenn Maxwell, Ravindra Jadeja, Pat Cummins (VC), Jasprit Bumrah, Mitchell Starc and Mohammed Shami. While the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad (also known as the Motera Stadium) is known for favouring batters, spinners often find themselves in an advantageous situation.
Let’s see if spin bowlers have dominated the Ahmedabad pitch in this World Cup or not. In the 4 matches played here in the tournament so far, 3 teams won while chasing the score. In the England vs New Zealand match on October 5, Kiwi batter Rachin Ravindra hit an unbeaten 123 to secure a 9-wicket victory for his team.
Spinners (Mitchell Santner, Glenn Phillips and Ravindra) took half of the 10 wickets in the match. In the India vs Pakistan match on October 14, spinners (Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja) took 4 out of a total of 13 wickets in the match while pacers took the rest. In the Australia vs England match on November 4, spinners (Liam Livingstone, Adil Rashid and Adam Zampa) took 6 out of a total of 20 wickets.
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