India is going to play 2 crucial cricket tournaments against Australia and South Africa ahead of the T20 World Cup to be played in Australia from 16th Oct to 13th Nov 2022.
After India failed to defend 209 runs in T20 against Australia, has raised many eyebrows across the cricket fraternity. India dropped 3 valuable catches during the Mohali match, which culminated in a colossal loss for the host India, in its first match against the guest Australia. However, short height floodlights have made Mohali notorious for catch drops, we have seen many drop catches during IPL matches too.
Cameron Green’s bombastic 61(31) batting with support of Matthew Wade’s unbeaten 45*(21) helped Kangaroos to begin the series with a blistering victory. Kangaroo skipper Aaron Finch made his intentions clear when hit the first ball of the innings for a six over the long off. Earlier ‘Hard Hitter’ Hardik Pandya, scored brilliantly and his personal best score of unbeaten 71* from just 30 balls with a hat-trick six, helped India to score 60 runs in the last 4 overs and register 208 runs on the board.
It was a feast for the punters across the 2 continents as 419 runs were scored and 12 wickets were taken down. A smart punter would cricket betting app download, and get ready to make a good fortune in this series. High scores by both teams have increased the expectations of profitability for the upcoming matches as well.
India is playing 6 T20s and 3 Day and Night ODIs. These would turn out to be good practice for India, Australia as well as South Africa, ahead of the mighty T20 World Cup. To match the big Aussie grounds, India has chosen big venues for these 9 games:
India Vs Australia T20 Series
- Sept 20, Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali, Australia won by 4 wickets
- Sept 23, Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, 7:00 PM
- Sept 25, Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad, 7:00 PM
India Vs South Africa T20 and ODI Series (Day and Night)
- Sept 28, 1st T20 Web, Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram, 7:00 PM
- Oct 2, 2nd T20Sun Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati, 7:00 PM
- Oct 4, 3rd T20 Tue Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore, 7:00 PM
- Oct 6, Thu, 1st ODI Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow, 1:30 PM
- Oct 9, Sun, 2ND ODI, JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi 1:30 PM
- Oct 11, Tue 3rd ODI, Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi, 1:30
In 2022 India and South Africa are facing off for the 3rd time. Earlier this year both the teams played 3 Tests, 3 ODIs in January, and 5 T20s in June. Hoping to pose challenges to India the Proteas have announced 2 different squads for both T20s and ODIs under the captaincy of the 32-year-old, right-hand batsman, Temba Bavuma. However, South Africa will retain the same T20 squad for the T20 World Cup that it has selected for India’s tour, with Bjorn Fortuin, Marco Jansen, and Andile Phehlukwayo as reserve players.
During the second Test against England, South African star batsman, Rassie van der Dussen, had sustained a left index finger injury and consequently, he has been ruled out of both the T20 and ODI tournaments. Quinton de Kock, Reeza Hendricks, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, David Miller, Wayne Parnell are going to play both T20 and ODI, while Rilee Rossouw, Tristan Stubbs are playing T20 and Janneman Malan, Andile Phehlukwayo got a place in the day and night ODIs.
