Indian wicketkeeper as well as captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (left) looks as Australian batsman as well as captain Ricky Ponting plays a shot during a quarter-final compare of a ICC World Cup 2011 during a Sardar Patel track in Ahmedabad. Ponting won a toss as well as inaugurated to bat opposite India in a World Cup quarter-final during a Sardar Patel Stadium.
©AFP – Indranil Mukherjee
AHMEDABAD, India (AFP) – Australia captain Ricky Ponting won a toss as well as inaugurated to bat opposite India in a World Cup quarter-final during a Sardar Patel Stadium upon Thursday.
India done a single shift from a side that kick a West Indies by 80 runs in their last organisation compare in Chennai with opener Virender Sehwag fit after recuperating from an allergic greeting to a painkilling injection in his knee.
Sehwag transposed forsaken all-rounder Yusuf Pathan, with Suresh Raina maintaining his place.
Australia, behest for a fourth unbroken World Cup pretension as well as fifth in all, done a single shift from a side that mislaid to Pakistan by 4 wickets — a better that finished their 34-match dominant run during a contest dating behind to 1999..
Leg-spinning all-rounder Steven Smith was forsaken as well as his place was taken by David Hussey, a batsman as well as accessible occasional off-spinner.
India’s Sachin Tendulkar came in to this compare wanting only a single some-more century to spin a initial player to measure a hundred general hundreds.
The winners of this compare will fool around Pakistan, who thrashed a West Indies by 10 wickets in Dhaka upon Wednesday, in a semi-final in Mohali upon Mar 30.
Their last World Cup assembly was in a 2003 last when Australia kick India by 125 runs in Johannesburg, with Ponting creation a match-winning 140 not out.
India: Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (capt/wkt), Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel
Australia: Brad Haddin (wkt), Shane Watson, Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Cameron White, Michael Hussey, David Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Jason Krejza, Brett Lee, Shaun Tait
Umpires: Marais Erasmus (RSA) as well as Ian Gould (ENG)
TV umpire: Richard Kettleborough (ENG)
Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (SRI)
Pitch conditions: Usually proves an glorious batting aspect though could additionally suggest turn, in that box India’s spinners will be approaching to have an edge.
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