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The Overview:
Australia is a country of early risers. At the first sliver of light, the streets of the big cities are dotted with people getting in a quick workout before the work day or lining up behind counters at cafes to get their coffee 'to go'. Even on cloudy days, the likes of which this World Cup has seen quite a bit, the sun finds a way to beam over demanding that the day be seized.
India haven't exactly been the early risers of this World Cup. They arrive in South Australia with qualification hopes in control but very cognisant of the fact that one ball here instead of there against Pakistan and they'll have been in the exact same place as during last year's troubled campaign in the UAE. The South Africa game in Perth brought many little details of the team under the glare. Their stronger batting arm, although methodical and calculative, hasn't quite set the World Cup alight as promised. More worryingly, they're clutching at the last remaining strands of their fielding reputation, one that has been peeled away, layer by layer, over the course of this last year.
But with the qualification in sight, India must renew focus against a Bangladesh side they would seem too strong for, at least on paper. Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid will seek the most precise of performances and will have to ensure there are no straggly bits in selection, strategy or execution as another mis-step could derail their aspirations. They'll know that in World Cups, just like in life, you can't win every battle, but you can try and win the important ones. And Wednesday's game qualifies as one.
Which brings us to their opponents on the day. Bangladesh are a T20 team in transition and flux with a reluctant captain at the helm. And as much as he tries to underplay his own team's chances, they are tied on points with India and very much in the race despite their poor run-rate. Seven years ago in another World Cup, it was in Adelaide that cricket's late risers finally revealed what they were capable of when fully awake. Shakib al Hasan, Taskin Ahmed and Soumya Sarkar are the only surviving members from that day and they'll hope Wednesday turns out to be a similarly seminal day in their T20 journey.
When: India vs Bangladesh, ICC men's T20 World Cup 2022, November 2, 18:30 Local, 13:30 IST
Where: Adelaide Oval
What to expect: The weather in Adelaide has turned around rather dramatically. After a bright and sunny start to the weekend, it's gotten dark, chilly and the streets are sodden. Short showers are predicted to hit around 7 PM local time but the game is unlikely to be washed out. This will be Adelaide's first game at this World Cup and the venue will present a slightly different challenge with its long straight boundaries and spinners coming into the play with more freedom to pitch the ball up. The average first innings score here in the BBL since the 2019-20 season is 164 with teams batting first winning 16 compared to 9 wins for chasing teams.
T20I Head to Head: India 10 - 1 Bangladesh. India have also won in each of the three T20 World Cup encounters, the last a dramatic one-run win in Bengaluru in 2016
Team Watch:
India
Injured/Unavailable: Dinesh Karthik walked off the field with a suspected lower-back injury in the game against South Africa. He batted in Adelaide's indoor nets on the eve of the match and was also put through a 'keeping drill. Dravid said a call on him would be taken based on how he pulls up on the morning of the match. If not fully fit, India have a straight swap available in Rishabh Pant.
India also made the tactical move of playing Deepak Hooda instead of Axar Patel, a batting all-rounder for a bowling all-rounder in bowler-friendly conditions. They might want to retain him with Bangladesh playing four lefties in their top-six.
Tactics & Matchups:
Ravichandran Ashwin didn't have the best of games against South Africa on a surface that wasn't suited to his craft. He should find the Adelaide Oval surface more to his liking. He holds a strong advantage against Shakib, having dismissed the Bangladesh skipper twice in nine balls bowled to him.
Bangladesh also struggle against wrist spin (54 wickets at 6.85 ER since 2021) and don't play enough of that variety in domestic cricket. India will have to go a batter short if they are to play Chahal in the XI.
Probable XI: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant/Dinesh Karthik (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh
Bangladesh
Injured/Unavailable: Bangladesh have a clean bill of health to report and all 15 are available for selection.
Tactics & Matchups: Shakib has a very parsimonious record in T20Is against both Kohli and Rohit, with the two star batters going only at 82.61 and 100 SRs respectively. Mustafizur Rahman has been expensive (SR 168.29) while facing Rohit but has also dismissed the Indian captain twice.
Bangladesh are concerned about Nurul Hasan's form behind the stumps. That and Soumya Sarkar's lean run could force them to tweak things around slightly. Litton could don the gloves and move up the order with Sarkar playing in the lower-order. Ebadot Hossain could be an extra seamer under the prevalent overcast conditions. Shakib chose to play his cards close to his chest and said there were several possibilities available to him.
Probable XI: Najmul Hossain Shanto, Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das, Shakib al Hasan (c), Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Nurul Hasan (wk), Yasir Ali, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed
Did you know?
- Virat Kohli has scored five hundreds (across formats) at the Adelaide Oval. It's the most he's scored in a single ground
- With 8 wickets from three games, Taskin Ahmed is the leading wicket-taker of the Super 12 phase. Arshdeep Singh has 7.
- India's PowerPlay Economy Rate of 4.61 is the best for a side in Super 12.
What they said:
"It is tough for someone for [someone like] DK to assess how he has gone about. Didn't get to play many games. He got one ball against Pakistan at thet back end... didn't bat against Netherlands. Thought he was building up a pretty good partnership with Surya at that stage. We needed that little bit of partnership just to get stabilized, and it just was set up for him, but again, that's the nature of this game. You play that high-risk shot and you can get out on that shot, which is why people need to be supported and backed as much as we possibly can in these formats, especially in positions like DK's at 5 and 6, you don't get enough balls and then when you have to go in, you have to really deliver high-risk shots without having much time to settle in." - Dinesh Karthik has the full support of Rahul Dravid and the team management.
"India are the favourites. They've come here to win the World Cup. We're not favourite and we didn't come here to win the World Cup. You can understand the situation. We know it very well, if we win against India, it'll be called an upset. We'll try to play our best cricket and try to make an upset." - Shakib Al Hasan dials down the pressure on his side ahead of the encounter.
Squads:
Bangladesh Squad: Najmul Hossain Shanto, Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das, Shakib Al Hasan(c), Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Nurul Hasan(w), Yasir Ali, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Ebadot Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Nasum Ahmed
India Squad: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Deepak Hooda, Dinesh Karthik(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal
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Australia is a country of early risers. At the first sliver of light, the streets of the big cities are dotted with people getting in a quick workout before the work day or lining up behind counters at cafes to get their coffee 'to go'. Even on cloudy days, the likes of which this World Cup has seen quite a bit, the sun finds a way to beam over demanding that the day be seized.
India haven't exactly been the early risers of this World Cup. They arrive in South Australia with qualification hopes in control but very cognisant of the fact that one ball here instead of there against Pakistan and they'll have been in the exact same place as during last year's troubled campaign in the UAE. The South Africa game in Perth brought many little details of the team under the glare. Their stronger batting arm, although methodical and calculative, hasn't quite set the World Cup alight as promised. More worryingly, they're clutching at the last remaining strands of their fielding reputation, one that has been peeled away, layer by layer, over the course of this last year.
But with the qualification in sight, India must renew focus against a Bangladesh side they would seem too strong for, at least on paper. Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid will seek the most precise of performances and will have to ensure there are no straggly bits in selection, strategy or execution as another mis-step could derail their aspirations. They'll know that in World Cups, just like in life, you can't win every battle, but you can try and win the important ones. And Wednesday's game qualifies as one.
Which brings us to their opponents on the day. Bangladesh are a T20 team in transition and flux with a reluctant captain at the helm. And as much as he tries to underplay his own team's chances, they are tied on points with India and very much in the race despite their poor run-rate. Seven years ago in another World Cup, it was in Adelaide that cricket's late risers finally revealed what they were capable of when fully awake. Shakib al Hasan, Taskin Ahmed and Soumya Sarkar are the only surviving members from that day and they'll hope Wednesday turns out to be a similarly seminal day in their T20 journey.
When: India vs Bangladesh, ICC men's T20 World Cup 2022, November 2, 18:30 Local, 13:30 IST
Where: Adelaide Oval
What to expect: The weather in Adelaide has turned around rather dramatically. After a bright and sunny start to the weekend, it's gotten dark, chilly and the streets are sodden. Short showers are predicted to hit around 7 PM local time but the game is unlikely to be washed out. This will be Adelaide's first game at this World Cup and the venue will present a slightly different challenge with its long straight boundaries and spinners coming into the play with more freedom to pitch the ball up. The average first innings score here in the BBL since the 2019-20 season is 164 with teams batting first winning 16 compared to 9 wins for chasing teams.
T20I Head to Head: India 10 - 1 Bangladesh. India have also won in each of the three T20 World Cup encounters, the last a dramatic one-run win in Bengaluru in 2016
Team Watch:
India
Injured/Unavailable: Dinesh Karthik walked off the field with a suspected lower-back injury in the game against South Africa. He batted in Adelaide's indoor nets on the eve of the match and was also put through a 'keeping drill. Dravid said a call on him would be taken based on how he pulls up on the morning of the match. If not fully fit, India have a straight swap available in Rishabh Pant.
India also made the tactical move of playing Deepak Hooda instead of Axar Patel, a batting all-rounder for a bowling all-rounder in bowler-friendly conditions. They might want to retain him with Bangladesh playing four lefties in their top-six.
Tactics & Matchups:
Ravichandran Ashwin didn't have the best of games against South Africa on a surface that wasn't suited to his craft. He should find the Adelaide Oval surface more to his liking. He holds a strong advantage against Shakib, having dismissed the Bangladesh skipper twice in nine balls bowled to him.
Bangladesh also struggle against wrist spin (54 wickets at 6.85 ER since 2021) and don't play enough of that variety in domestic cricket. India will have to go a batter short if they are to play Chahal in the XI.
Probable XI: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant/Dinesh Karthik (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh
Bangladesh
Injured/Unavailable: Bangladesh have a clean bill of health to report and all 15 are available for selection.
Tactics & Matchups: Shakib has a very parsimonious record in T20Is against both Kohli and Rohit, with the two star batters going only at 82.61 and 100 SRs respectively. Mustafizur Rahman has been expensive (SR 168.29) while facing Rohit but has also dismissed the Indian captain twice.
Bangladesh are concerned about Nurul Hasan's form behind the stumps. That and Soumya Sarkar's lean run could force them to tweak things around slightly. Litton could don the gloves and move up the order with Sarkar playing in the lower-order. Ebadot Hossain could be an extra seamer under the prevalent overcast conditions. Shakib chose to play his cards close to his chest and said there were several possibilities available to him.
Probable XI: Najmul Hossain Shanto, Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das, Shakib al Hasan (c), Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Nurul Hasan (wk), Yasir Ali, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed
Did you know?
- Virat Kohli has scored five hundreds (across formats) at the Adelaide Oval. It's the most he's scored in a single ground
- With 8 wickets from three games, Taskin Ahmed is the leading wicket-taker of the Super 12 phase. Arshdeep Singh has 7.
- India's PowerPlay Economy Rate of 4.61 is the best for a side in Super 12.
What they said:
"It is tough for someone for [someone like] DK to assess how he has gone about. Didn't get to play many games. He got one ball against Pakistan at thet back end... didn't bat against Netherlands. Thought he was building up a pretty good partnership with Surya at that stage. We needed that little bit of partnership just to get stabilized, and it just was set up for him, but again, that's the nature of this game. You play that high-risk shot and you can get out on that shot, which is why people need to be supported and backed as much as we possibly can in these formats, especially in positions like DK's at 5 and 6, you don't get enough balls and then when you have to go in, you have to really deliver high-risk shots without having much time to settle in." - Dinesh Karthik has the full support of Rahul Dravid and the team management.
"India are the favourites. They've come here to win the World Cup. We're not favourite and we didn't come here to win the World Cup. You can understand the situation. We know it very well, if we win against India, it'll be called an upset. We'll try to play our best cricket and try to make an upset." - Shakib Al Hasan dials down the pressure on his side ahead of the encounter.
Squads:
Bangladesh Squad: Najmul Hossain Shanto, Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das, Shakib Al Hasan(c), Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Nurul Hasan(w), Yasir Ali, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Ebadot Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Nasum Ahmed
India Squad: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Deepak Hooda, Dinesh Karthik(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal
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4. Stick to commenting on this match. There is no need to bring other countries into the match discussion as there are plenty of other threads where those discussions can be added.
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