IND vs AUS: Australia captain Steve Smith wins the toss, opts to bat

Rohit Sharma, Steve Smith (Pic: X/@IPL2025Auction)

In the ongoing Champions Trophy 2025 semi-final match, Australia captain Steve Smith has won the toss and elected to bat first against Team India.

India has reached the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy 2025 on the back of three consecutive victories in the campaign so far. They finished the group stage with three wins in three matches along with six points and a net run rate of +0.715.

Australia on the other hand has played just one match in the Champions Trophy 2025. Their two matches in the tournament were washed out. Their group stage saw them finish in the second place with four points and a net run rate of +0.475.

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Ahead of the Champions Trophy 2025 match, Team India will highly rely on their bowling department to dismiss Australia's premier batsman Travis Head. The "Men in Blue" will also expect in-form Shreyas Iyer to deliver performance in the middle-order, yet again.

On the other hand, the Aussies will look to keep India stalwart Virat Kohli silent from regaining his dominating form back.

Coming so far, both teams will be eager to cement their place in the finals of the Champions Trophy 2025. Australia made two changes from their previous match playing XI, bringing in Cooper Connolly for injured Matthews Short and Tanveer Sangha for Spencer Johnson.
India fielded the same playing XI of their previous match.

Champions Trophy 2025, IND vs AUS: Squads

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

Australia: Cooper Connolly, Travis Head, Steve Smith (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wk), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Tanveer Sangha.