India will play its first match of the World Cup against Australia on 8 October 2023 at Chepauk stadium, Chennai.
The pitch at Chepauk Stadium is traditionally known to be a spin-friendly pitch. It has a lot of dry and cracked areas, making it conducive for spin bowlers to take advantage of the conditions.
Last time India and Australia faced each other at Chennai, the Kangaroos managed to get the better of India, defeating by 21 runs.
Batting first Australia put on 269 runs, but in reply, India bundled up to a total of 248 runs with the help of Zampa’s 4 wickets who outshined 3/56 runs of Kuldeep Yadav.
The highest runs scored in an ODI in Chepauk stadium is 337 runs by Asia 11, against Africa 11 in 2007.
As far as regular cricket playing nations are concerned, Pakistan holds the record for highest total of 327 runs, with famous innings of Saeed Anwar of 194 innings, a record which seemed to be unbreakable for a very long time.
India did fight with a century from Rahul Dravid, but fell short of 35 runs.
With most of the times, teams scoring between 250-300 runsat Chepauk stadium and spinners playing a huge role, we can expect this curtain raiser at the World cup for India to be a cracker of a contest.
As far as test cricket is concerned, both Virender Sehwag and Karun Nair scored their respective triple hundred here. Some good memories for Indian fans.
