India and Australia once again in the cards of semi final where Australia would be hoping to keep their dominance on India. And on the other hand India won't forgot the injury that caused on the eve of the World Cup final in Ahmedabad where India lost the World Cup on their own backyard. This will be definitely a firey contest between these two teams. As there have been few changes in both the sides squards. 

India have lost their pace attacker Bumrah who has been sidelined due to back injury. And there in Australia have lost their Captain Pat Cummins, pace bowlers like Hazelwood and Mitchell Starc. It would be more of a contest with the bat. Australia chased a difficult target of 375 in their first encounter of Champions Trophy against England. England batting were firey at their innings. And it seemed a lost game for them but this team is really unpredictable which can pull of anything as different individuals rise up in hard occasions. 

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Smith With A Special Message To India 

Their second and third match were whitewashed  due to rain where they had to face South Africa and Afghanistan. Due to better run rate Australia secured top spot on Pool A. India won their all matches and secured the top spot in Pool B. Its Australia and India once again in the cards will it be a repeat of 2023 or India will seek their revenge. Through their ongoing presser meet it was been asked of a message to captains for each other. It all started where captain of Australia Pat Cummins stated an statement that " Nothing More Satisfying Than A Big Crowd Go Silent"

And won the World cup 2023 in India and silencing the crowd same here it was asked to current Australian skipper Steve Smith whether he has any special message for India this time. Smith responded Yeah, I don't really have a message to be honest. Smith was dropped from captaincy after the sand paper scandal which became the talk of the town both Steve Smith and warner were banned for 1 year by Cricket Australia, after that Pat Cummins was appointed as captain for Australia. 

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Smith Back On Guard

 Due to ongoing injury of Pat Cummins which happened in recent Bgt series Steve Smith have been called to captain Cricket Australia. It was too asked about the advantage that India possses in the Champions Trophy. Smith says ya they have slight edge as they have played all their, games here and accessed the pitch very well. India has quality spinners. 

Our first priority will be taking on their spinners and playing into our merit. He said India is a, tuff team to challenge but we too had our preperation spot on. We too have include spin department. Morning I I have spoked to groundsman where he stated it is a dry pitch and spinners will come into play, we are looking for a good game.