IND vs AUS ODI Series: The long series between India and Australia is about to end. The first four Test matches were played in the series, which the Indian team won 2-1, while the one-day series continues, which is tied at 1-1 and the last match will decide who will win the series. The name will be Meanwhile, the last match is to be played at the Chepauk Stadium in Chennai, which is also known as the home of former Team India captain MS Dhoni.
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Though MS Dhoni hails from Ranchi, he has been playing for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL since its inception, so he gets a lot of love there as well. Before IPL 2023, Team India will now play its last international match. But this last match is very special. The first thing is that this match will decide who will go to the trophy, there is another challenge. Especially if Team India bats first in this match, then it will become even more important.
Team India has not Yet Touched the Figure of 300 at Chepauk Stadium in ODIs
Team India has so far played 14 ODIs at this Chepauk Stadium in Chennai and has won seven of them. But the special thing is that the Indian team has not been able to cross the 300 mark in ODIs here even once. Team India’s biggest score here is 299 runs, which it made against South Africa in the year 2015. There was a chance to cross 300 in this match, but the Indian team missed it. Team India had scored more than 300 runs in the six ODIs they had played before this ODI series against Australia. Whenever they batted first, but in the first match of this series. Team India batted later and when the second match When batting came first, the overall score could only go up to 117 runs. That is, a score of 300 is a far cry, the score has not even reached 150.
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But now there will be an opportunity to take this trend forward. It is not that more than 300 runs have never been scored here. The highest score here is 337 runs, which was made in the year 2007. When the match was played between Asia XI and Africa XI. On the other hand, if we talk about the rest of the matches, then in the year 1997. The Pakistani team scored a big score of 327 runs.
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Spinners Can Dominate on Chennai Pitch
Talking about the pitch of Chepauk Stadium in Chennai, it is believed that spinners dominate here. In such a situation, the Indian team can go with two fast bowlers Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj, even Hardik Pandya does medium pace. While Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja will handle the spin. Akshar Patel was given a chance in the last match. But this time there will be a race between him and Washington Sundar to join the team’s playing XI. It has to be seen who the captain Rohit Sharma and coach Rahul Dravid give a chance. But it is almost certain that the way Australia has performed in both the matches played so far. It seems that the match will be close and the team which will perform specially on this day, will win.