Something old in Mohali, something new awaits India and Australia

The last time Australia and India met in a T20 match in Mohali, the format was not as developed as it is now six years later. Subsequently, in the World T20, India won the semi-finals in a thrilling chase that ran between the wickets of Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, a measured and calculated batting line-up. It was a strategy decided by the long boundary square of the wicket.

In the era of the T20 World Cup, those adopting that style are becoming fewer. It’s a style of gameplay that Rohit Sharma & Co. is actively trying to break, with then-hero Virat Kohli being the centerpiece of the strike-rate debate.

After scoring a century against Afghanistan recently, Kohli, who has recused himself from some scrutiny, has now turned to India’s chosen opener KL Rahul ahead of Kohli. Rahul has said that he is working on increasing his strike rate a day before the first match of the series against Australia.

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Aaron Finch’s men are also not exempt from that debate, with Steven Smith’s style of play training the eye on impact in the format. While Finch supports them for good to come, the series will serve as an audition as Australia gets through without some of their mainstays like Mitchell Marsh, David Warner, and Marcus Stoinis. As a result, the opportunity abounds for Tim Davids as they try to finalize their best of eleven with a month to go for the start of the tournament.

Whether they experiment with giving the likes of World Cup standby Deepak Chahar for some game time will be a question for the think-tank, even as the question of Rishabh Pant or Dinesh Karthik lingers around. And they will be hoping to answer those questions in the few series left before the World Cup.

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India:-

Strategy: The presence of a left-handed batsman in the middle order is something India is very keen on. Pant needed to jump ahead of Karthik after Jadeja’s injury. But does the arrival of Axar Patel change the equation once again? Will India have as much faith in Patel’s batting abilities as it did in Jadeja? And without a lot of left-handed batsmen in Australia, can Yuzvendra Chahal overtake R Ashwin?

Probable XI: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant/Dinesh Karthik, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, R Ashwin/Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Jasprit Bumrah

Australia:-

strategy: The strike-rate question can raise the possibility of a changed batting order if need be. He also likes that India can break the glut of right-handed batsmen in the middle order on the likes of Ashton Agar.

Probable XI: Aaron Finch, Matthew Wade, Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Tim David, Cameron Green, Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Daniel Sams, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood