ICC Champions Trophy 2025 – India vs Australia: Start, teams, stream

Who: India vs Australia
What: ICC Champions Trophy 2025 semifinal
Where: Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
When: Tuesday, March 4 astatine 1pm (09:00 GMT)
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India look Australia connected Tuesday successful the archetypal semifinal of the Champions Trophy – a matchup that pits the favourites for the one-day planetary (ODI) contention against the 50-over satellite champions.

Indeed, the crippled is simply a repetition of the last of the 2023 Cricket World Cup, successful which the Australians upset the likelihood to bushed the hosts India successful the last successful Ahmedabad.

Does India’s Dubai determination springiness them the edge?

India skipper Rohit Sharma dismissed suggestions that they person had an unfair vantage by being allowed to play each their Champions Trophy matches successful Dubai.

India refused to circuit Pakistan for the tournament due to the fact that of the strained governmental relations betwixt the bitter neighbours, who play each different lone successful multi-team events.

The International Cricket Council (ICC), which has erstwhile Indian committee caput Jay Shah arsenic its existent chairman, has been criticised for obliging the game’s fiscal motor by letting India campy successful Dubai.

While different teams shuttled among 3 Pakistani cities and Dubai, India did not look immoderate question hassle and gained invaluable insights into the conditions successful Dubai, having played each 3 radical matches here.

Rohit denied they held immoderate vantage and said surfaces astatine the Dubai International Cricket Stadium behaved differently.

“There are 4 oregon 5 surfaces that are being utilized and each aboveground has a antithetic nature,” the opener said up of Tuesday’s semifinal against Australia.

“The pitches look the same, but erstwhile you play connected it, it has played successful a antithetic way. So, you can’t spell reasoning ‘We played similar this yesterday, and contiguous we’ll play similar this’.

“We don’t cognize which transportation is going to beryllium played successful the semifinal. But immoderate happens, we person to accommodate and spot what is happening.

“This is not our home; this is Dubai. We don’t play truthful galore matches here. This is caller for us, too.”

India person enjoyed a beardown backing from their fans successful Dubai [Satish Kumar/Reuters]

India are unbeaten successful this year’s tournament, but Rohit predicted a pugnacious contention against Australia, who prevailed successful their past brushwood – the last of the 2023 World Cup.

“Look, Australia person been specified a large squad implicit the years,” said Rohit.

“So we volition expect immoderate fightbacks, we volition expect immoderate nervy times arsenic good successful the middle.

“But that is however the crippled is being played these days. And you are talking astir a semifinal.”

Can Australia’s spinners travel to the enactment successful the semifinal?

Australia spinner Adam Zampa says helium is beneath his champion astatine the Champions Trophy, but volition inactive beryllium acceptable to instrumentality large wickets successful the semifinal.

Zampa took 2-48 successful the washed-out radical lucifer against Afghanistan and 2-64 successful the five-wicket triumph implicit England successful Lahore, Pakistan to assistance Australia scope the past 4 of the ODI tournament.

The 32-year-old limb spinner whitethorn beryllium cardinal to Australia’s hopes of triumph successful Dubai, wherever India won their 3 radical matches connected spin-friendly wickets.

“Personally, I don’t deliberation I’m bowling rather astatine my best, but I similar to deliberation the quality astir me, erstwhile I’m not rather astatine my champion and not feeling that large retired there, is my quality to inactive lend and instrumentality those large wickets,” Zampa said.

“So, yeah, [I am] evidently moving connected immoderate worldly astatine the infinitesimal to hopefully get backmost to my best.

“But arsenic I said, the quality to inactive bash a occupation for the squad and get those large wickets is inactive there, which to maine is truly important.”

Australia’s Adam Zampa, right, bowls successful the lucifer against England, whose skipper Jos Buttler watches connected [K.M. Chaudary/AP]

What person been the squad movements up of the semifinals?

The Australia squad flew from Lahore to Dubai connected Saturday contempt knowing they mightiness request to alert backmost to Pakistan for the 2nd semifinal depending connected the effect of the India-New Zealand radical match.

India duly beat New Zealand by 44 runs connected Sunday to guarantee Australia’s aboriginal travel to Dubai was worthy it.

South Africa, however, were forced to question backmost to Pakistan for the 2nd semifinal against New Zealand successful Lahore connected Wednesday.

The ICC has travel nether occurrence implicit the scheduling but Zampa was not complaining.

“Obviously we had a spot of a hectic docket playing a mates of games successful Pakistan, backmost and distant successful betwixt cities,” helium said.

“It’s benignant of bully to get here. We’ve got a large installation present astatine the ICC Academy, changes it up a small spot arsenic well, truthful yeah, the boys are feeling OK astir it.”

What are India’s and Australia’s records successful the Champions Trophy?

India person doubly claimed triumph successful the Champions Trophy, successful 2002 and 2013, but lost the last to Pakistan successful the past edition. Australia bushed the West Indies successful the 2006 final, earlier defending their crown against New Zealand successful 2009.

India squad news

India went successful with 4 spinners including 2 all-rounders successful their past radical lucifer successful Dubai and came up trumps with Varun Chakravarthy returning figures of 5-42.

Rohit said helium volition beryllium tempted to support the aforesaid operation against Australia.

“He conscionable showed what helium is susceptible of,” Rohit said of antheral of the lucifer Chakravarthy, a wrist spinner with galore variations up his sleeve.

“Now it is up to america to deliberation and spot however we tin get that operation right. He did everything that was asked for … it is simply a bully headache to have.”

India were dealt a stroke up of the tourney erstwhile the ICC’s Men’s Cricketer of the Year Jasprit Bumrah was ruled retired by the bowler’s prolonged injury-related issues.

India’s Varun Chakravarthy, centre, celebrates the wicket of New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips, right, during the last group-stage lucifer connected Sunday [Altaf Qadri/AP]

Australia squad news

Australia person moved to screen for Matt Short, who has been ruled retired owed to a near quadriceps injury, with all-rounder Cooper Connolly approved arsenic a replacement successful the squad.

Left-arm spinner Connolly volition assistance screen the nonaccomplishment of Short’s off-spin if the 21-year-old is selected against India. But the onus volition beryllium connected Adam Zampa to pb their rotation attack.

The satellite champions mislaid accelerated bowlers Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood to ankle and hep injuries respectively for the Champions Trophy. They are besides without Mitchell Starc, who is retired for idiosyncratic reasons.

Mitchell Marsh is besides absent with an injury, portion Marcus Stoinis announced his status connected the eve of the tournament.

Form usher – India

Victories successful some matches truthful acold volition person travel arsenic a immense boost to an Indian broadside that person had constricted one-day planetary cricket since the 2023 Cricket World Cup final.

The 3-0 bid whitewash against England connected the eve of the tourney was a immense boost pursuing the 2-0 decision successful the three-match bid against Sri Lanka past August.

Form usher – Australia

Australia arrived astatine the Champions Trophy connected the backmost of 2 ODI bid losses, including a whitewash distant to Sri Lanka, but they turned things astir successful their opening crippled against aged rivals England, earlier a washout against South Africa and a triumph against Afghanistan.

Last 5 ODI matches

India: W W W W W
Australia: L L W NR W

When and wherever volition the 2nd semifinal beryllium played?

The 2nd semifinal – betwixt South Africa and New Zealand – volition beryllium played successful Lahore connected Wednesday.

When and wherever volition the last beryllium played?

The last is scheduled to beryllium played successful Lahore connected March 9.

Should India scope the final, however, the lucifer volition beryllium switched to Dubai.

India squad:

Squad: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill (vice captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakravarthy.

Australia squad

Squad: Steve Smith (captain), Alex Carey (wicketkeeper), Cooper Connolly, Nathan Ellis, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis (wicketkeeper), Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Adam Zampa, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sean Abbott, Ben Dwarshuis, Spencer Johnson, Tanveer Sangha.