Formidable India Take On Mighty Australia In World Cup Semis

These matches include four Tests, out of which two were won by the hosts, two ODIs of the tri-series and warm-up match before the start of the tournament proper.

But the memories of a horrendous Australian Summer have long been replaced with the celebration of stupendous performances in the World Cup where there were abject surrender by a few and clinical decimation of some other rivals.

The Indian team can be segregated into two divisions while analysing the turn of events during the past four months Down Under -- the pre-World Cup phase where everything went haywire and the World Cup phase where everything seemed to have fallen in place.

The bowling that used to be the perennial weakness for Men In Blue has now turned into their strength. Mohammed Shami, with 17 wickets, along with Umesh Yadav (14) and Mohit Sharma (11) have accounted for 42 victims out of the 70 that India attained in seven games.

For Australia, the biggest test at home will be playing on a SCG surface that might not be to their liking.

The low and slow nature of the track was on view when South Africa humbled Sri Lanka in the quarter-finals with Imran Tahir and JP Duminy taking four and three wickets respectively.
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