Australia started its summer season season of cricket with Zimbabwe taking part in for the primary time in a One Day International collection within the nation since 2004.
The groups will play three ODIs over seven days beginning Sunday, with the remaining two in a collection on Wednesday and subsequent Saturday within the tropical North Queensland metropolis of Townsville.
The venue for the day’s matches would be the 10,000-seat Riverway Stadium.
Australia all-rounder Marnus Labuschagne expects spin to play a giant position within the matches. He has performed within the stadium 3 times and the right-hander has scored 337 runs in his 5 innings at a median of 84.25.
“The ground is great. I don’t think I’ve lost here yet, I’ve got three wins in three matches.”
There isn’t any signal of jetlag from Sikandar Raza, who scored a century in opposition to India in Harare 4 days in the past #AUSvZIM pic.twitter.com/CeenF4iHvV
— Josh Schonfinger (@joshschon) 27 August 2022
“We (Queensland State) performed right here final 12 months and the monitor was excellent. It did a little bit early nevertheless it was actually good for the spinners.” There are two spinners in Australia’s squad, with Ashton Agar getting back from harm in Sri Lanka and Adam Zampa returning to the staff after the beginning of their first baby, Eugene.
Named a near-full-strength squad with captain Aaron Finch on Saturday, Finch additionally confirmed a change in Australia’s ODI batting order with wicketkeeper Alex Carey shifting as much as No. 4, Steve Smith to No. 3 and Mitch Marsh to 3. shifted to 5. ,
Zimbabwe, which final performed an ODI in Australia as a part of a tri-series with India greater than 18 years in the past, has a number of choices with spin, together with all-rounders Sikandar Raza, Sean Williams, Tony Munyonga and Ryan Burle. efforts are more likely to be supplemented. Frontline quick bowlers.
Sunday’s match would be the first of 17 One Day Internationals for Australia forward of the 2023 ODI World Cup in India.
Australia: Aaron Finch (c), David Warner, Steve Smith, Alex Carey, Mitchell Marsh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Greene, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood.
Zimbabwe (from): Ryan Burle, Regis Chakabwa (Captain), Bradley Evans, Luke Jongwe, Innocent Kaya, Takudzwanashe Kaitano, Clive Madande, Wesley Madhevere, Tadiwanashe Marumani, Tony Munyonga, Blessing Mujarbi, Richard Ngarwa, Victor Nyucchi, Alexander Raza, Sean Williams.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
