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CLAIM NOWToss Winner - England Masters won the toss and choose to bat first
Australia Masters beat England Masters by 3 wickets
The group stage of the inaugural International Masters League concludes with England Masters versus Australia Masters on Wednesday evening in Raipur.
We are backing Australia Masters to win!
Tournament: | International Masters League T20, 2025 |
Format: | t20 |
Venue: | Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium, Raipur, Raipur, India |
Toss Prediction: | To Bat |
Weather: | 33.4°C|Clear |
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Whenever England and Australia lock horns in an international sports contest, there will be eyes on it from across the globe and the players on both sides will be desperate to triumph.
With the history of the Ashes, this fixture between the two 'Masters' representatives will have plenty of bite with certain players still with scores to settle from series over the past two decades.
Despite any bitterness between the teams, the game is unlikely to have anything riding on it as Australia Masters will still be in the top four when it begins and barring a huge net-run-rate swing will be through to the knockouts.
So therefore, there will just be pride, but plenty of it, to play for!
150/1 in 13.0 11.54
146/5 in 20.0 7.3
159/3 in 18.1 8.75
157/6 in 20.0 7.85
179/6 in 20.0 8.95
171/8 in 20.0 8.55
260/1 in 20.0 13
123/10 in 17.0 7.24
222/7 in 19.2 11.48
217/4 in 20.0 10.85
220/3 in 19.2 11.38
216/8 in 20.0 10.8
Throughout this tournament, scoring runs has been England Masters main issue and once again their batting line-up looked way too short of batters in their defeat against Sri Lanka Masters.
Opener Phil Mustard made an entertaining half-century before being dismissed from 39 deliveries but England Masters are likely to have Chris Schofield batting at number five again in this game which is a couple of places too high for this standard.
That will put more pressure on Mustard, captain Eoin Morgan and Tim Ambrose to deliver with the bat.
With the ball, England Masters' players have struggled to defend the low totals of their batters but Monty Panesar and Ryan Sidebottom have generally been accurate.
Phil Mustard (wk), Eoin Morgan (c), Tim Ambrose, Darren Maddy, Chris Schofield, Tim Bresnan, Chris Tremlett, Monty Panesar, Ryan Sidebottom, Boyd Rankin, Dimitri Mascarenhas
Darren Maddy, Eoin Morgan, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Tim Bresnan, Phil Mustard, Tim Ambrose, Chris Tremlett, Monty Panesar, Chris Schofield, Ryan Sidebottom, Boyd Rankin
They may have taken a while to get going in the tournament, but now Australia Masters look unstoppable and will go into the knockouts as one of the favourites to lift the trophy.
Momentum is a funny thing in competitions like this and Shane Watson's side certainly have it after they thrashed South Africa Masters by 137 runs last Friday.
That will give them the required net-run-rate cushion to see them through the group stage but with Watson, Callum Ferguson and Ben Dunk all in brilliant batting form, do not be surprised if they take the England Masters' bowlers apart.
With the ball, Xavier Doherty, Ben Laughlin and Bryce McGain all come into this game after taking 2+ wickets in the win over South Africa Masters.
Shane Watson (c), Callum Ferguson, Ben Dunk (wk), Dan Christian, Nathan Reardon, Ben Cutting, Ben Laughlin, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Xavier Doherty, Bryce McGain, Ben Hilfenhaus
Nathan Reardon, Shaun Marsh, Shane Watson, Daniel Christian, Ben Cutting, Peter Nevill, Benjamin Hilfenhaus, Ben Laughlin, Bryce McGain, James Pattinson, Steve O'Keefe
It will be a clear evening in Raipur and the heat of earlier in the day will still be present. No clouds with humidity levels up at around 45% are forecast on Wednesday evening.
The ball will bounce nicely for the stroke makers and unless the bowlers have real mystery or express pace they are likely to be hit all over. A par total will be over 200.
This is an excellent batting surface and both teams will want to go big in the first innings and bat the others out of the contest. Therefore, we predict that both teams will choose to bat first.
With England Masters having such a short batting line-up, this game looks like being very one-sided. It has been a miserable few months for England cricket fans and we are predicting another defeat against Australia in this fixture!
We are backing Australia Masters to win!
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