India vs Australia Champions Trophy 2025 semifinal: Pitch report, Playing XI and Will Rohit use spin attack?

India will enter the semifinals of Champions Trophy 2025, and will face Australia. The team went with a heavy spin attack before this clash, and it would be interesting to see what bowling attack will be used this time.

Indian team is going to face Australia in the first semifinal of the Champions Trophy 2025 at the Dubai International Stadium in UAE from 2:30 PM IST. This is going to be the first time that the two teams are going to face each other since the 2023 ODI World Cup final.

Indian team will enter this game after a victory over New Zealand with a spin-heavy strategy, as the spinners dominated and took 9 of the 10 wickets. The question that comes now is will India will go with four spinners, or go with a pacer with the spinners.

Pitch report:
The pitch in Dubai for all the three games had been slow. The pitch for this clash is going to bring some excitement in the math. Dew is also going to play an important factor. Hence, spinners are going to get aid in this match. The team which will bat first can post a decent score of 230+, which might become hard for the chasing team as the pitches get slow as time passes by.

Weather report:
According to Accuweather, he weather in Dubai is expected to stay sunny throughout the day, and clear sky during the night. There is no chance of rain throughout the whole duration of the match.

Predicted Playing XIs:
India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel , KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy.

Australia: Jake Fraser McGurk, Travis Head, Steven Smith (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wk), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Sean Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Tanveer Sangha.

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