IND vs AUS XI CT 2025: Australia adopted India's winning formula, this player surprise entry in playing 11

IND vs AUS XI CT 2025: The first semi-final match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is on Tuesday (March 4) in Dubai. In this great match, Australia captain Steve Smith won the toss and decided to bat first. The Indian team has lost the toss for the 14th time in this way. Cooper Connolly was given a chance in Australia's team in place of Matthew Short. At the same time, leg spinner Tanveer Sangha has come in place of Spencer Johnson.

Apart from Sangha, Adam Zampa is also a specialist spinner in the team. Apart from this, Glenn Maxwell is also a bowling option as a spinner in the Australian team.

There was no change in the Indian team. Rohit Sharma has expressed his trust in the same playing 11 that played against New Zealand. Varun Chakraborty has got a place in the playing 11. KL Rahul has once again got preference over Rishabh Pant.

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The Indian team topped its group and made it to the semi-finals. At the same time, the Australian team reached the last four by finishing second in Group B.

Who is Tanveer Sangha?

Tanveer Sangha has a special connection with India. Tanveer's father Joga Sangha is a resident of Rahimpur village, 20 km from Jalandhar. He went to Australia in 1997 in search of work. Joga drives a taxi in Sydney.

Tanveer was born in Sydney. Joga had told in an interview, 'No one in my family was fond of cricket. I loved playing kabaddi and volleyball. When Tanveer turned 10, I enrolled him in a cricket club. I used to drop Tanveer to the club every day in my taxi.'

Tanveer Sangha also participated in the Under-19 World Cup (2019/20) held in South Africa. Tanveer took the highest number of 15 wickets for Australia in that World Cup. Tanveer made his ODI debut against South Africa at the Durban ground in August 2023.

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Then he made his T20 International debut against South Africa in Potchefstroom in September of the same year.

Tanveer Sangha has a special connection with India

Tanveer Sangha was also a part of the Kangaroo team in the Cricket World Cup 2023. Tanveer has so far taken 2 wickets in 3 ODIs and 10 wickets in 7 T20 matches for Australia. Tanvir also has 53 wickets in his name in 42 Big Bash League matches.

India-Australia Playing-11:

Indian team: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Axar Patel, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty and Mohammed Shami.

 Australia's team: Cooper Connolly, Travis Head, Steve Smith (captain), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wicketkeeper), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Tanveer Sangha

 ICC Knockout results:

1998 Champions Trophy: India won by 44 runs

2003 ODI World Cup: Australia won the match by 125 runs

2007 T20 World Cup: Indian team won the match by 15 runs

2011 ODI World Cup: India won by 5 wickets

2015 ODI World Cup: Australia won by 95 runs

2023 World Test Championship Final: Australian team won by 209 runs

2023 ODI World Cup: Australian team won by 6 wickets

A day of revenge for India

This is also a golden opportunity for India to take revenge for the defeat in the World Cup final on its home soil in 2023 This is the occasion when Australia had put a stop to India's 10-match Ashvamedha campaign in the final.

It will not be that easy because even without Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc, the Australian team is very strong. A few days ago, it has proved this once again by achieving the target of 352 runs against England in Lahore.

Summary

This time the Indian team will come out to settle the score of 14 years of failures and the reason for its confidence is the presence of top-class spinners in the team. Before the tournament, the decision to include five spinners in the team was criticized a lot, but now it is proving to be a masterstroke on the slow pitches of Dubai.

There was no change in the playing 11 of the Indian team in this great match. At the same time, two changes were seen in Australia's playing 11