The most awaited game of the quarter final between four time world champion Australia and one of the tournament favorite India will be played on 24th March at Motera. A battle would be for the semi-final spot and both teams would look forward to register a win and move to Mohali to play Pakistan in the 2nd Semi Final on 30th of March 2011.
So far performances of both teams with bat and bowl are not as expected. Both teams’ middle order or some patchy bowling.India has struggled to play their full quota of 50 overs as the middle order has collapsed in almost all games.
On the other hand the worrying factors of Australia are Captain Ricky Ponting’s bad form, Cameron White looking out of sort and late order batsmen is not good enough to cope up on the spinner friendly track.Australia who is currently ranked number one team in ODI,eventhough after the retirement of Hayden, Glichrist, McGrath and Warne,is still a very good side and is a tough team to beat.
M.S.Dhoni and Company would certainly be fancying their chances of knocking the defending champions out of the tournament and stay in the hunt to bring back cricket's biggest title to India after 28 years.
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