India vs Australia

India vs Australia, T20 World Cup 2016:

Overview

The opening game of the T20 World Cup 2016 will see hosts India take on Australia in a Group 2 encounter at Nagpur. The favourites to win the T20 Cup this year, India come into this game on the back of scintillating T20 performances against Australia and in the Asia Cup.

Ranked No 1 in the T20 format, the Men In Blue have a number of match winners in their side, and are close to unbeatable in home conditions. The warm-up games gave an indication of their batting prowess and in Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina and skipper M S Dhoni they have probably the best batting line-up in the competition.

Spinner R Ashwin will be expected to shoulder the bowling, but in Ashish Nehra, Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya, he has able support. Mohammad Shami played in the warm-up games and will start with India expected to field their strongest XI considering everyone is fit at the moment.