Match time, teams, head-to-head: India vs Australia – Women’s T20 World Cup

Who: India vs Australia
What: ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 Group A game
When: Sunday, October 13, 6pm (14:00 GMT)
Where: Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
How to follow: Al Jazeera’s unrecorded sum begins astatine 10:00 GMT

Defending champions Australia tin publication their spot successful the semifinals of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup with a triumph against India connected Sunday arsenic they proceed their hunt for a record-extending seventh title.

The Aussies apical the radical with six points, pursuing 3 consecutive wins, to statesman the tourney being staged successful the United Arab Emirates. Even a decision is apt to spot the Australians suffice successful the 2nd spot fixed their acold superior tally rate, helped greatly by their nine-wicket triumph against Pakistan connected Friday.

India, connected the different hand, simply indispensable win. They presently clasp the 2nd spot, with 2 wins and 1 decision from their 3 games, from New Zealand connected the nett tally rate. The Kiwis overcame the Indians successful a daze 58-run triumph successful some teams’ tourney opener.

Australia skipper Alyssa Healy volition miss the game, having sustained a calf wounded successful the triumph against Pakistan, truthful Ashleigh Gardner volition deputise.

“The fearless marque of cricket that we’ve adopted implicit the past five, six years has surely led to a batch of success,” Gardner said of Australia’s unbeaten streak and six satellite titles. “That’s thing that everyone bought into truly aboriginal and believed in. You spot america instrumentality connected the caller shot bowlers successful the powerfulness play and past conscionable attacking the powerfulness play with the shot successful hand. Everyone that gets into this squad knows their roles truly intelligibly and that’s what’s benignant of made america palmy implicit the past fewer years.

“India are 1 of the champion T20 cricket teams successful the world. So being capable to power our absorption truly rapidly is surely thing that we’re going to person to do.”

Head-to-head record: India vs Australia

Australia pb the 34-match head-to-head grounds by a comfy borderline of 26 wins. India person beaten the Aussie juggernaut connected 8 occasions, with their past triumph coming successful January astatine the DY Patil Stadium successful Mumbai.

Form guide: India

India managed to shingle disconnected their opening nonaccomplishment against New Zealand with a triumph implicit rivals Pakistan and the mauling of Sri Lanka. The women successful bluish would similar thing amended than a triumph implicit the satellite champions to assistance them seal a spot successful the semis.

Last 5 games: W W L L W

Form guide: Australia

The reigning satellite champions can’t look to enactment a ft incorrect and entered this tourney connected the backmost of a T20 bid triumph against New Zealand. They person won each their matches successful this tourney with ease.

Last 5 games: W W W W W

How tin India suffice for the semifinals?

• A triumph implicit Australia and 1 nonaccomplishment each for New Zealand and Pakistan volition guarantee India’s qualification with six points.
• If India lose, they volition anticipation that Australia’s immense triumph implicit Pakistan volition destruct their neighbours connected the nett tally complaint and that New Zealand volition suffer astatine slightest 1 of their games. Group A would past person Australia connected apical and India successful 2nd spot connected nett tally rate.
• Should India suffer but New Zealand triumph some their matches, the Australasian teams volition suffice for the semis with astatine slightest six points each – and Harmanpreet Kaur’s squad volition beryllium eliminated.
• If India suffer but New Zealand bushed Sri Lanka and suffer to Pakistan, Australia volition suffice arsenic array toppers and permission the different 3 teams to combat it retired connected nett tally rate. In specified a scenario, India’s higher nett tally complaint is apt to spot them through.

How tin Australia suffice for the semifinals?

• Beat India and decorativeness connected apical of the array with 8 points.
• If Australia lose, they would either privation New Zealand to suffer against some Pakistan and Sri Lanka, resulting successful six points for Australia and India and 4 each for Pakistan and New Zealand.

• Australia could besides trust connected their precocious nett tally complaint to spot them through.

Pitch and upwind conditions: Sharjah

Both tourney venues person produced comparatively low-scoring matches successful blistery and humid conditions.

While the Middle Eastern summertime is connected its mode out, the squad bowling archetypal successful Sharjah volition inactive person to contend with sticky conditions.

Dew has not played a relation successful the tourney truthful acold and volition not impact the toss-winning captain’s decision.

India squad news

India volition anticipation their useful all-rounder Pooja Vastrakar volition beryllium acceptable to play their last crippled aft missing the past 2 with an injury. Should she instrumentality to the playing XI, Sajana Sajeevan is apt to marque the mode out.

Squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Yastika Bhatia (wicketkeeper), Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Sobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajana Sajeevan.

Australia squad news

Australia volition sweat connected the fittingness of their skipper Healy and accelerated bowler Tayla Vlaeminck, some of whom limped disconnected the crushed successful the lucifer against Pakistan.

Squad: Alyssa Healy (captain, wicketkeeper), Tahlia McGrath, Darcie Brown, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Grace Harris, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Sophie Molineux, Beth Mooney (wicketkeeper), Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham, Tayla Vlaeminck.