World Cup 2015: 2nd Semi-final - India vs Australia: Venue, date, records, predicted line-ups

Sydney all set for a cracker of a contest

Venue: Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

Date and Time: Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 9:00 IST (14.30 Local)

All time head-head records:

Matches: 117,

Won : Australia- 67; India- 40,

Tied: 0,

No Result: 10

Last five results:

India - WWWWW

Australia - WWWWL

Last five head-head results:

26 Jan 2015- Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney- No result

18 Jan 2015- Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne- Australia won by 4 wickets

2 Nov 2013- M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore- India won by 57 runs

30 Oct 2013- Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur- India won by 6 wickets

26 Oct 2013- Barabati Stadium, Cuttack- Match Abandoned

All time top run-scorers:

India - Sachin Tendulkar (3077 runs)

Australia - Ricky Ponting (2164 runs)

All time highest wicket-takers:

India - Kapil Dev (45 wickets)

Australia - Brett Lee (55 wickets)

Top run scorers in WC’15:

Shikhar Dhawan

India - Shikhar Dhawan (367 runs)

Australia - Glenn Maxwell (301 runs)

Highest wicket-takers in WC’15:

Mitchell Starc

India - Mohammed Shami (17 wickets)

Australia - Mitchell Starc (18 wickets)

*Data updated till 25 March 2015

Predicted line-up

India- Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mohammad Shami.

Australia- David Warner, Aaron Finch, Steven Smith, Michael Clarke (capt), Shane Watson, Glenn Maxwell, Brad Haddin (wk), James Faulkner, Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood