New Delhi: The Indian cricket team, after losing out to the Australian cricket team, in a last-ball thriller in the third T20I match, will be looking for redemption when they will take the field on Friday at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, in Raipur.
The men in blue still have the 2-1 lead in the series, and a win on Friday will give them an unassailable lead with one match still to go, while Australia has to win the match at any cost if they want the series to stay alive before the final clash on Sunday at Bengaluru.
India will also be looking to win their record 136th T20I match and become the team with T20I wins in history after Glenn Maxwell stopped them from doing so in the third match.
Glenn Maxwell hits the Winning Shot!pic.twitter.com/TmE3RrbDui
— CricketGully (@thecricketgully) November 28, 2023
However, the Australian team, which will be taking the field without any of their ICC World Cup 2023 winning members, will have to put everything they have to win the match with a new-looking and less experienced team.
Batsmen in form
The batsmen from both the teams are in form as out of 6 innings that have been played so far in the series, five of them were 200+ totals.
India has a slight upper hand over the Aussies in the batting as they have more batsmen in form overall than the Aussies, who have performed in bits and pieces throughout the series.
Ruturaj Gaikwad – What a player, The future..!!!
– The Star. ⭐ pic.twitter.com/8bBbjhd1Q4
— CricketMAN2 (@ImTanujSingh) November 30, 2023
India will be hoping that Ruturaj Gaikwad and Yashasvi Jaiswal will give them yet another fiery start, with Ishan Kishan and Surya Kumar Yadav giving them much-needed support in the middle.
Ishan Kishan has 3 T20I fifties on his name now, the most by an Indian wicketkeeper batsman.pic.twitter.com/MFYQz7uwpe
— Cricketopia (@CricketopiaCom) November 26, 2023
Bowlers looking for form
Bamboozled!
A sharp delivery from Ravi Bishnoi to pick the third wicket for #TeamIndia.#INDvAUS | @IDFCFIRSTBank pic.twitter.com/et78AxImBO
— BCCI (@BCCI) November 28, 2023
On the contrary to the batting, the bowling of both the teams has looked out of colour throughout the series, with everyone leaking runs at almost 10 runs per over, and whoever team wants to win the series has to get their bowlers to perform significantly better than the first three matches of the series.
