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Steve Smith explains why Australia fell short against India in semifinal

Steve Smith explains why Australia fell short against India in semifinal

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IND vs AUS Champions Trophy 2025: Australia came into the ICC Champions Trophy without some serious starpower, especially in their bowling unit. World Cup-winnning captain Pat Cummins and frontline bowlers Mitch Starc and Josh Hazlewood were absent. But it wasn’t the bowling that Smith felt was the difference between India and Australia in Dubai on Tuesday. Chasing 265, India were made to work hard on a tricky batting surface but they eventually got home with 11 balls and four wickets to spare. Speaking after the match, Smith felt Australia were a few runs short after opting to bat first. “It wasn’t the easiest batting condition, probably why the scores were as they were. I thought we could have put a few more runs on. We lost a couple of wickets at crucial times. If we got 280 plus, things could have been different,” Smith said in the post-match chat, adding that the lack of sufficient partnerships hurt the world champions. “It always felt like we were one wicket too many down at each stage of …

Glenn Maxwell’s brain-fade sees Australia fold out for 264

Glenn Maxwell’s brain-fade sees Australia fold out for 264

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IND vs AUS Champions Trophy 2025: Glenn Maxwell has played some of the most memorable innings in white-ball cricket, but his game is not built around consistency. He is an impact player, an x-factor who can’t be expected to contribute with the bat in every game. But sometimes, when he is in for a good time and not necessarily a long time, his team management may question his game-reading ability. One guesses they have made their peace with it over the years. IND vs AUS Semi-Final LIVE Cricket Score, Full Scorecard: Watch Here On Tuesday, Steve Smith and Alex Carey had taken Australia to a position from where they could launch towards a score of 280 or more. When the skipper got out, there were enough overs left for Maxwell to play a proper innings, get set before launching in the final overs. Story continues below this ad Conventional logic, however, rarely applies to Maxwell. He gave himself only three balls, two from Mohammed Shami and one from Axar Patel, before he launched the left-arm …

Ashwin called it, Varun delivers against Head in Champions Trophy

Ashwin called it, Varun delivers against Head in Champions Trophy

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IND vs AUS Champions Trophy 2025: On match eve, R Ashwin had suggested that Varun Chakravarthy be given the new ball against Travis Head and that he can bowl from over the wicket to the left-handed opener. “If Rohit has to play with Head’s head, then he has to hand the new ball to Varun. Tell him ‘khulke daalo’ like Ravi (Shastri) bhai would, give it to Varun and ask him to bowl over the stumps. Head shows all his three stumps and then clears his leg and hits it over the field. Varun Chakravarthy with new ball might give India an edge. It will be a mouth watering contest,” Ashwin had said on his YouTube channel. Ashwin was proved right, but with a difference. Rohit Sharma didn’t give the new ball or first-change to Varun, but brought him on as second spinner, after Kuldeep Yadav. And Varun went about it in his own way, choosing to go around the stumps, and not over. IND vs AUS Semi-Final LIVE Cricket Score, Full Scorecard: Watch Here …