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Australian tour of India '98 A Preview
Coming international tours A Preview
Last updated :10th MArch '98.
Coming international tours A Preview
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on 21 January
1998 the following itinerary for the Australian tour of India in
February - April, 1998:
Dates | Opponents | Venue |
Tue 24 - Thu 26 Feb | Mumbai | Mumbai (Brabourne Stadium) |
Sun 1 - Tue 3 Mar | Indian Board President's XI | Vishakapatnam |
Fri 6 - Tue 10 Mar | FIRST TEST | Chennai |
Fri 13 - Sun 15 Mar | India A | Jamshedpur |
Wed 18 - Sun 22 Mar | SECOND TEST | Calcutta |
Wed 25 - Sun 29 Mar | THIRD TEST | Bangalore |
This tour will then be concluded with a one-day international tri-series involving Australia, India and Zimbabwe to be played between 1 and 14 April.
Triangular One-Day Series: India, Australia, Zimbabwe - April 1998
Dates | Opponents | Venue |
1 Apr | Ind v Aus | Kochi |
3 Apr | Aus v Zim | Ahmedabad |
5 Apr | Ind v Zim | Vadodara |
7 Apr | India v Aus | Kanpur |
9 Apr | Ind v Zim | Cuttack |
11 Apr | Zim v Aus | Faridabad |
14 Apr | Final | Delhi |
Australian selectors have chosen their squad of fifteen players for the Test leg of the tour of India in February and March 1998.
Matthew Elliott and Andy Bichel have been dropped from the team that played in the Third Test against South Africa, while Glenn McGrath, Jason Gillespie and Simon Cook are unavailable due to injury. Four players in the squad (Lehmann, Dale, Wilson and Robertson) have yet to appear in a Test match.
The full team is:
The squad for the one-day leg of the Indian and Sharjah tour will be named following the current Australian tour of New Zealand.
1. Navjot Sidhu 2.Wasim Jaffer / Gagan Khoda 3.Rahul Dravid / Kambli 4.Sachin Tendulkar 5.Mohd. Azharuddin 6.Saurav Ganguly 7.Nayan Mongia 8.Rajesh Chauhan 9.Srinath 10.Anil Kumble / Sairaj Bahatule 11.Venkatesh Prasad/Debashish Mohanty OUR team for the one dayers : 1.Saurav Ganguly 2.Sachin Tendulkar 3.Mohd. Azharuddin 4.Vinod Kambli 5.Ajay Jadeja. 6.Robin Singh 7.Saba Karim 8.Javagal Srinath 9.Prasad 10. Anil Kumble 11.Rajesh Chauhan /Hrishikesh Kanitkar
Batsmen
Sachin Tendulkar Azharuddin Steve Waugh Mark Waugh Ponting
Bowlers
Shane Warne Srinath Chauhan Kasprowicz
We predict a very close and tight series with India winning 2 - 1 . The Aussies desperately wanna win this series so that they can be the undisputed world champs. India will want to keep its record of not losing a series at home for so long intact. With Azhar at the helm of affairs , its gonna be difficult for the Aussies. Sachin will concentrate only on batting rather than worry about 10 others.
Zimbabwe in New Zealand, Feb-Mar 1998 Sri Lanka in South Africa, Mar-Apr 1998 South Africa in England, May-Aug 1998 Sri Lanka in England, Aug 1998Main
List of Forthcoming ODI Tournaments
Triangular International Series in Ind (Ind, Aus, Zim), Apr 1998 Triangular International Series in SA (Pak, SA, SL), Apr 1998 Triangular International Series in England (Eng, RSA, SL), Aug Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur, September 1998 World Cup 1999 in England