India won the first ODI by 5 wickets in Mumbai, while Australia won the second ODI by 10 wickets in Visakhapatnam on Sunday. Now the series will be decided from the third and last match in Chennai on 22 March.
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New Delhi: With two back-to-back ODI series wins against Sri Lanka and then New Zealand Indian Cricket Team Had a great start to the World Cup year. However, now Australia has presented a tremendous challenge in front of Team India. India definitely won the first match of the ODI series but its weaknesses also came to the fore. In the second match in Visakhapatnam, Australia came back by capitalizing on those weaknesses and won by 10 wickets. That is, the series is equal. Now the question is, whose series will it be?
It has rarely happened in the last few years when Team India has had more trouble in winning an ODI series. Nevertheless, whenever such situations have arisen, Team India has won the decisive matches. If we look at the record of the last 4 years, then there are indications that Team India will win the third and last match of the series to be held on Wednesday, March 22 and capture the series.
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Since 2019, there have been four consecutive occasions when Team India landed in the last match with an equal scoreline and finally captured the trophy. West Indies in 2019, England in 2021, then England again in 2022 and won the series against South Africa in 2022 itself.
Nevertheless, Team India and its fans need not be too happy and the reason for this is Australia. In fact, in 2019, an ODI series against Australia reached the last match and Australia won it.
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But it is not that Australia cannot be defeated. Apart from the three occasions mentioned above, the fourth victory actually came against Australia only. The series held in India in January 2020 was also equal to 1-1 after two matches, but Team India won the series by defeating Australia in the last match. That is, on March 22, Team India will again be a contender at the Chepauk ground in Chennai and will enter with this confidence.