The famous Australian Cricket rivalry heads to Delhi to once and for all split these two sides before the next addition of the T20 Bash kicks off. These two sides played a number of warm up games back in Australia a month ago with Victoria having a slightly better run. This match won't be the first time these two teams have met in India, their first being another warm up played before this tournament where Victoria were comprehensive winners.
For once Victoria didn't start a T20 competition as favourites and even NSW had shorter odds. This meant Victoria came into this tournament slightly under the radar but they quickly rectified this by demolishing Delhi Daredevils, the favourites for this tournament. Since that match, Victoria have almost doubled their T20 total loss record with losses to Wayamba and Cape Cobras. Those two losses highlighted the struggles that the Victorian batters have encountered with not a single Bushranger passing the 50 mark.
The bowling has been the strong point for Victoria with McKay and McDonald outshining some of the better known names in Harwood and Siddle. New Aussie squad member, Jon Holland, has shown glimpses of his potential with accurate bowling and at times impressing the commentators with the amount of turn he was getting. In between those good games he has struggled which is to be expected from the youngster.
NSW come into the game off a relatively easy draw that has seen them avoid playing any of the IPL teams. It took the brilliance of Pollard to stop this smooth running train that has demolished teams through their very experienced bowling attack and youthful batting.
Henriques has started to deliver on the massive potential that has seen him hyped up to be Australia's next all-rounder. He has been able to score freely in each of his innings so far, with his knock against Sussex being the highlight with 51 off just 33 balls. His bowling has in general been good apart from the match against Trinidad & Tobago where he was single handedly taken apart by Kieron Pollard.
The Hughes-Warner combo started to click into gear after the Sussex game where Hughes produced a steady 62 and then backed it up in the next match with 83 from 64 balls. David Warner started the tournament slowly, trying to adjust to the slow nature of the pitches. His adjustment paid off in the match against Trinidad & Tobago where he smashed 63 at a strike rate of 154 and like his opening partner, he backed it up with an even more destructive knock with 40 runs off 16 balls against Somerset.
The NSW bowlers have worked as a team with Brett Lee conceding a miserly 3.6 runs an over, easily the best economy in the tournament. This has allowed the other bowlers to feast on the wickets with Clark and Henriques the benefactors. Doug Bollinger has been giving Katich the blues with only two wickets at an average of 44. Nathan Hauritz has been hard to get away in general while Steven Smith been serviceable to allow Katich some freedom in his bowling choices.
This match could well be decided in the battle between the inform NSW bowling attack and the yet to fire Victorian batting attack.
Team information
NSW will more than likely go into this big match unchanged. If they were to make a change Doug Bollinger would be the most likely to make way for Aaron Bird.
NSW: DA Warner, PJ Hughes, SM Katich*, MC Henriques , BJ Rohrer, SPD Smith, DLR Smith?, B Lee, NM Hauritz, SR Clark, DE Bollinger
Victoria should go into this match unchanged.
Victoria: Quiney, Hodge, White*, Hussey, Blizzard, McDonald, Wade+, McKay, Harwood, Holland, Siddle
For once Victoria didn't start a T20 competition as favourites and even NSW had shorter odds. This meant Victoria came into this tournament slightly under the radar but they quickly rectified this by demolishing Delhi Daredevils, the favourites for this tournament. Since that match, Victoria have almost doubled their T20 total loss record with losses to Wayamba and Cape Cobras. Those two losses highlighted the struggles that the Victorian batters have encountered with not a single Bushranger passing the 50 mark.
The bowling has been the strong point for Victoria with McKay and McDonald outshining some of the better known names in Harwood and Siddle. New Aussie squad member, Jon Holland, has shown glimpses of his potential with accurate bowling and at times impressing the commentators with the amount of turn he was getting. In between those good games he has struggled which is to be expected from the youngster.
NSW come into the game off a relatively easy draw that has seen them avoid playing any of the IPL teams. It took the brilliance of Pollard to stop this smooth running train that has demolished teams through their very experienced bowling attack and youthful batting.
Henriques has started to deliver on the massive potential that has seen him hyped up to be Australia's next all-rounder. He has been able to score freely in each of his innings so far, with his knock against Sussex being the highlight with 51 off just 33 balls. His bowling has in general been good apart from the match against Trinidad & Tobago where he was single handedly taken apart by Kieron Pollard.
The Hughes-Warner combo started to click into gear after the Sussex game where Hughes produced a steady 62 and then backed it up in the next match with 83 from 64 balls. David Warner started the tournament slowly, trying to adjust to the slow nature of the pitches. His adjustment paid off in the match against Trinidad & Tobago where he smashed 63 at a strike rate of 154 and like his opening partner, he backed it up with an even more destructive knock with 40 runs off 16 balls against Somerset.
The NSW bowlers have worked as a team with Brett Lee conceding a miserly 3.6 runs an over, easily the best economy in the tournament. This has allowed the other bowlers to feast on the wickets with Clark and Henriques the benefactors. Doug Bollinger has been giving Katich the blues with only two wickets at an average of 44. Nathan Hauritz has been hard to get away in general while Steven Smith been serviceable to allow Katich some freedom in his bowling choices.
This match could well be decided in the battle between the inform NSW bowling attack and the yet to fire Victorian batting attack.
Team information
NSW will more than likely go into this big match unchanged. If they were to make a change Doug Bollinger would be the most likely to make way for Aaron Bird.
NSW: DA Warner, PJ Hughes, SM Katich*, MC Henriques , BJ Rohrer, SPD Smith, DLR Smith?, B Lee, NM Hauritz, SR Clark, DE Bollinger
Victoria should go into this match unchanged.
Victoria: Quiney, Hodge, White*, Hussey, Blizzard, McDonald, Wade+, McKay, Harwood, Holland, Siddle
