with Shubman, testing positive for Dengue (rumoured), if so, Ishan Kishan Might open with Captain Rohit Sharma. One down King Kohli, followed by Shreyas Iyer as he is probably better in handling spin looking at Chepauk pitch. KL Rahul (wk) followed by Hardik Pandya, However, in Indian conditions, We needed a spin bowling alrounder like Yuvraj Singh (Man of the Series World Cup 2011 & 2007 T20 World Cup), so we missed a trick on Washington Sunder, i feel.
With black-soil pitch India would like to play with 3 spinners i.e. Sir Ravindera Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravichandran Ashwin and in Last 8 encounters Team batting first have won the Match. Among pacers we have Jaspreet Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj.
Australia : David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins Captain, Josh Hazlewood, Adam Zampa
History of World Cup encounters suggests Aussies as Stronger team with winning 8 out of 12 matches and overall, 82 times by Australia won and 56 times won by India, out of 147 ODI’s played between the two. However, Form wise and condition wise India is more stronger team on Paper.