Commonwealth Games 2022: Australia Women vs India Women Cricket Match Preview, Probable XIs, Dream11 Team Prediction

Australia Women's team will face off against the India Women's team in the first Cricket match of Commonwealth Games 2022 on July 29, Friday from 3:30 PM onwards at the Edgbaston, Birmingham.

India and Australia are in Group A, and it's going to be the first game of the event and the group. Australia will be the favorites while India is all set to challenge them.

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Australia Women vs India Women | Match Details

Match Venue: Edgbaston, Birmingham
Match Date: 29/07/2022
Time: 3:30 PM IST
Where to watch: Sony Sports Network and Sony LIV.

Australia Women vs India Women | Pitch Report

The Pitch condition may help the batsmen. The winners of the toss should bat first on this wicket.

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Head to Head:

Matches Played: 22
Won by Australia: 16
Won by India: 06

Team News and Probable XI

Team News | Australia Women

Australian women are one of the favorites of the tournament to clinch Gold while the Women in Blue are also a good contender. Although, the Aussies are looking favorites in this game with the strong opening pair of Healy and Mooney. On the other hand, their bowling unit also consists of Alana King and Jess Jonasson with all-rounders Gardner and McGrath. It will be tough to beat a team as the Australians have.

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Australia Women's Probable XI

Alyssa Healy (wk)
Beth Mooney
Rachel Haynes
Meg Lanning (C)
Ellyse Perry
Tahlia McGrath
Ashleigh Gardner
Alana King
Jess.Jonassen
Darcie Brown
Megan Schutt

Team News | India Women

For the Women in Blue, it's bad news that two of their important players Puja Vastrakar, and S Meghna tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday and are all set to miss a few games. Puja Vastrakar is specifically one of the most important players for team India while in the bowling of in batting department she gave her best in recent times.

In the opening pair, there is Smriti Mandana and Shefali Verma while captain Harmanpreet Kaur will lead the side in the tournament. Kaur and Mandhana are confident that they may reach the gold. They said they are ready to face any challenge in the tournament.

India Women's Probable XI

Smriti Mandhana
Shafali Verma
Yashtika Bhatia (wk)
Harmanpreet Kaur (C)
Jemimah Rodrigues
Harleen Deol
Deepti Sharma
Radha Yadav
Renuka Singh
Rajeshwari Gaikwad
Meghna Singh

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Australia Women vs India Women | Dream11 Team Prediction

N.B: You must change your team if any of these players are not announced in the starting lineup.