India VS Australia 7th ODI, A Preview..

Binnu · 10th November 2009, 01:55 PM

Well, Its Australia, who already clinched the series with them with one remaining.
But here, a win for them makes their First position (In ICC rankings) secure.
Indians are bit disappointed after the series loss and they are on fire to win the last one and keep up some respect in their fans.
Two important Australians (Shane Watson and Mitchell Johnson) were sent back to Australia after 6th ODI win by keeping the series' against Windies and Pakistan in mind.

So, in this match, Australian team looks weak without any doubt.
As given in Cricinfo, the probable XI for the 7th ODI are:-

India: (probable)
1 Sachin Tendulkar, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Gautam Gambhir, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 7 Harbhajan Singh, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Amit Mishra, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashish Nehra

Australia: (probable)
1 Shaun Marsh, 2 Adam Voges, Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Cameron White, 5 Michael Hussey, 6 Andrew McDonald, 7 Graham Manou (wk), 8 Clint McKay, 9 Jon Holland, 10 Doug Bollinger, 11 Burt Cockley.

A new face in Australian side is being unveiled by them in the form of "John Holland".
Who knows?? He might turn up another Shane Warne in future.

TBH, Australian Side is pretty inexperienced as only two players are throughly experienced and one more has a good experienced.

No Comments on Indian Probable as its difficult commenting on that line up when seen on Paper.
Viru, Tendlya, Gauti, Yuvi, Rania, Maahi and can you forget the match enders?? "Bhajji and Praveen".
But the top order failure at Gawahati costed them a series. So, they need to play well and score some runs on board like what they did in Hyderabad.

Of course, Game at Hyderabad and Vadodara were bit disappointing, yet, they have to accept the result as they were reduced to 3 runs and 4 runs respectively at those two matches.

Keeping all this in mind..
Can India perform well tomorrow??
Will Australia take the Hero Honda Cup with a 5-2 lead??
These questions will be answered after a day.

aussie1st · 11th November 2009, 01:43 AM

You also forgot the even newer face who wasn't even in the squad in Cockley. Holland doesn't feel like one that gets overawed by the situation but this will be his biggest test especially if Sehwag is still in when he comes onto bowl. Yuvi will also give him a thorough test.