India vs Australia 2017: 5 player battles to look out for in the T20s

#2 Jasprit Bumrah vs Steve Smith

Biggest positive for India

By his own lofty standards, the Australian captain Steve Smith had a middling ODI series, where he got starts in almost all the games, but could not latch on to it to forge a significant score. He would ideally want to reverse this pattern in the T20s, where he might play the role of an anchor sandwiched between the stroke makers.

He will face a tough challenge from the newest star on the horizon with the ball in Jasprit Bumrah, who not only posed problems for the Australians with the new ball, but strangled them during the middle and death overs.

Smith needs to take on Bumrah, and the battle could be decided then and there!