IND vs AUS, Champions Trophy 2025 Semi Final: India bury the ghost of Australia, storm into final

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: All right then. Steve Smith and Rohit Sharma lead their teams out with the young mascots accompanying the players. The officials also line up, they are in the centre with the two teams flanking them, all standing shoulder to shoulder.

First comes Australia's "Advance Australia Fair" and then India's "Jana Gana Mana".

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: This was the 11th consecutive time that Rohit lost a toss in ODIs. He is now tied on second with the Netherlands' Peter Borren on the list of longest losing streak with the toss in the format. One more, and he equals Brian Lara's all-time record of 12.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Rohit Sharma says India prepared to do both, bat or bowl first. They want to continue from where they left off in the group stage and so no changes in their eleven.

India XI: Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Steve Smith says that the surface looks quite dry. Cooper Connolly comes in for Matt Short, Tanveer Sangha comes in for Spencer Johnson.

Australia XI: Cooper Connolly, Travis Head, Steven Smith(c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis(w), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Tanveer Sangha

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: All right then, Ravi Shastri makes the stadium shake with his booming voice. IND vs AUS LIVE Score, Champions Trophy Semi Final: All right then, Ravi Shastri makes the stadium shake with his booming voice. "Start up and crank up the engines folks," he says. He does a proper boxing intro here. Goes on for a while. Rohit tosses it up, Smith calls it heads and HE GETS IT!

Australia are batting first.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: All right the two captains have exchanged their team sheets. They are now engrossed in a chat. The crowd is building up nicely here and we are seconds away from toss…

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Ramiz Raja and Mike Atherton on the pitch report today. Their analysis is it's not too hot, a gentle breeze blowing across the ground. 77m down the ground, square boundaries - 69m and 62m. The pitch looks very bare, very dry and very cracked. Still battable, win the toss and bat first. The ball will grip. Looks good for the spinners.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Every frame that the broadcaster captures sums up the mood within the camps of both these teams. Travis Head is all smiles and laughter while Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli stretch away with just 10 minutes to go for the toss. Surprisingly, though, Varun Chakaravarthy has yet to be sighted. He may be around, just not to be captured by the camera. After all, an architect always loves his angles. Michael Clarke says Australia have done brilliantly to reach the semifinal, but he is nervous. Uthappa gives India a 60-40 advantage against Australia.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: In June last year, Rohit Sharma channelled every bit of his tears from November 19, bringing it out as a swashbuckling assault on Australia at the T20 World Cup final. Rohit's 92-run knock knocked the stuffing out of the opposition, and despite India's villain Travis Head's gallant half-century, Australia fell short. As it turns out, India won the tournament from there, beating England in the semis and South Africa in the final. Can Rohit, the Indian captain, dish out one such punishment again against the Aussies? Because if he does, no force can stop India from marching into their third straight ICC final in a row.

He's had a quiet tournament thus far, getting starts against Bangladesh and Pakistan. Can he make it rain sixes today?

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: The last time India fielded a spin-heavy unit was a long time ago, when MS Dhoni was in charge of the team. The Virat Kohli era was pace-heavy, with Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal holding the spin fort in limited overs. Rohit Sharma has been a mixed bag, a bit of both, but today he can take a leaf out of Dhoni's book and go ahead with four spinners in Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja and Varun Chakaravarthy – basically the same XI from the New Zealand game. Harshit Rana, unfortunately, will have to wait, challenged by his KKR teammate. Mohammed Shami and Hardik Pandya will be the two seam bowling options.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Captain Rohit Sharma is the first man to deboard the bus, followed by coach Gautam Gambhir, who has become an expert in carrying that poker face. Virat Kohli, with earphones plugged in, looks relaxed. Why should he worry? He loves batting against Australia, and no better occasion than today to build on it. With that, both teams have arrived on the hallowed battle turf of the Dubai International Stadium. From here, one team enters the final. The other goes back home. Who will it be?

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Can't see any of the team yet, but we do have a couple of throwdown specialists taking their places. Oh wait! Scratch that. The Australian team has just arrived and is getting off the bus. The mobile phones have been safely put in the bags as the players head towards the change room. Smiles all around. Confident faces. Expect the Indian team to join their opponents shortly. It's on, folks. The clock is ticking away. We're only a little while away from the biggest rivalry in modern-age cricket penning a fresh chapter.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Speaking of which. Pretty sure you're aware that India have lost their last 13 tosses in a row. THIRTEEN. That's a number that isn't exactly the most pleasant. But despite the 13th toss defeat, India conjured a handsome win against New Zealand. Rohit and coin tosses haven't been the greatest love story. In the World Cup final, Australia won the toss, with Pat Cummins opting to bowl first. Mitchell Marsh did the same in the 2024 T20 Word Cup. So Aussies winning and putting India shouldn't come as a surprise. Especially if the surface is in fact dry and gets better for batting later on.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: It is hard to say whether Virat Kohli is in good touch or not. He came into the tournament after having an absolute mare in the 2024/25 red ball season, fell to a leg spinner for the umpteenth time in his career for 22 against Bangladesh, and was then left with his jaws on the floor thanks to Glenn Phillips against New Zealand while he was on 11. In between those two innings was an unbeaten 100 in which he looked like he was never out of form. In these uncertain times, Adam Zampa would definitely be fancying his chances. The Australian spinner has dismissed Kohli five times and thus has enjoyed more success against India's batting mainstay than any other player from the team

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: A astrologer has come up with some wild predictions for the semifinal. As per the same, Travis Head is likely to be dismissed for 5 or 23 runs. Or at max 49. The same astrologer also predict Virat Kohli to emerge as the second-highest run-scorer of the day. A pivotal moment in the match is also expected to unfold around about 40 minutes into the game. The team batting well is likely to experience a few tumbles along the way. If you're an Indian cricket fan who believes in astrology, it may not be a bad idea for Australia to bat first

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Ashwin wants Rohit to do what MS Dhoni did years with him – Give the new ball to a spinner, in this case, Varun Chakaravarthy, and unleash him straightaway on Travis Head. We mean, why not? India haven't found the anti-dote to Head, but if they don't try, they never will. Ashwin was part of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. He saw from close quarters Head's assault in his teammates. For all you know, this could well be the fix to India's woes against Head. Not just Varun. But Varun with the new ball. Will Rohit listen to his former No. 1 spinner?

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: IND vs AUS Live Score: Only Travis Head has a higher strike rate than Rohit Sharma among openers with more than 100 runs in the first 10 overs of an ODI since 2023. However, Rohit is the only batter to have scored more 1000 runs in this phase of an ODI in this period. They both love to take the bowlers on and deflate attacks in the first powerplay and so this should be a fun watch.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: India made Bangladesh and Pakistan look like they were out of their depth in their first two matches of the tournament. In the first, they blasted away Bangladesh's top five in the first nine overs. Despite a remarkable recovery, Bangladesh could do little as India ran off to a six-wicket win. India then took full advantage of Pakistan's conservative batting to run off to another six-wicket win. Shubman Gill scored a century in the first match, Virat Kohli in the second. There was a little more of a challenge against New Zealand in the third, with Mr. Consistent Shreyas Iyer propping up their batting. However, the brilliance of Varun Chakravarthy ended the game as a contest before it could really heat up.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Absolutely! Varun Chakaravarthy could be key to India's success against Travis Head. The mystery spinner has been bamboozling opposition over the last one month – first England, then New Zealand. Getting a game ahead of Harshit Rana, Chakaravarthy hit New Zealand with something the Kiwis did not see coming at all. Aussies have not seen much of Chakaravarthy, Head included – barring the occasional IPL face-offs. What Head knows is the rest of the Indian bowlers. So hey Rohit! If you're listening… bring Chakaravarthy in, get him to dismiss Travis Head, and you may have one foot into the door of the final.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Cooper Connolly is a batter, who can bowl more than handy left-arm spin. If the match between India and New Zealand was anything to go by, Australia will bring the 21-year-old straightway into the Playing XI to attack India with spin. Connolly has played just three ODIs but with left-arm bowling having traditionally troubled India on surfaces with turn – be it Mitchell Santner or Matthew Kuhnemann, the spin pair of Connolly and Adam Zampa – throw in a bit of Glenn Maxwell in there too – can stifle the Indian batting. The exciting Jake Fraser-McGurk is another option, with none other than Ricky Ponting vouching for his inclusion.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Why not? If there's been one thorn in India's eyes, it's TRAVIS HEAD. A hundred against India in the WTC final. A hundred against India in the 2023 World Cup final. Back-to-back hundreds again in Adelaide and Brisbane during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. It's almost as if a younger Steve Smith – albeit a left-handed version of Smudge – has returned to haunt India. In every generation of India vs Australia rivalry, one Aussie has always given India a hard time – starting with Allan Border and moving to Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting, and Smith, the baton has passed to Travis Head. India need to find a way to get rid of him, and do it early to push themselves into contention for a place in the final.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: It has to be Nairobi 2000. Almost a year after India returned from Australia with just one win from 17 matches – Tests and ODIs combined – no one gave India a chance but themselves as under the astute leadership of new captain Sourav Ganguly, India knocked Australia out. Sachin Tendulkar unleashed a never-before-seen assault on Glenn McGrath, leaving the Aussie pace spearhead shellshocked, but while the Master Blaster deserves all the credit for rattling the Australian bowling, the stage was set for a 19-year-old Yuvraj Singh to take the world by storm. Fresh off a successful campaign in the Under-19 World Cup for India, Yuvraj arrived with a blazing knock of 84, still considered arguably India's greatest ODI debuts of all time. Relive that classic below.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Australia started their tournament with one of the most talked-about match of it - they chased a target of 353 with five wickets and more than two overs to spare. However, they could do precious little in the matches after that. Their second game, a potentially juicy encounter against South Africa, was entirely washed out in Rawalpindi and they could bat just 12.5 overs before rain won again, this time in Lahore. It has hence been about 10 days since Australia last played a full ODI match. In this period, India beat Pakistan and New Zealand.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: Was also when India broke the run of big losses to them in big tournaments. It was the last match of the Super Eights for them India batted first. Captain Rohit Sharma went berserk in a way only he could and his 92 off 41 balls, coupled with a brilliant 31 off 16 by Suryakumar Yadav, took India to 20/5. Travis Head, unsurprisingly, powered the Aussie chase and he smashed 76 in 43 balls before falling to the irresistible Jasprit Bumrah. Head's dismissal sent the Aussie chase into a tailspin and India won by 24 runs.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, Semi Final: India don't trail too many teams in world cricket, but Australia is one of them. In 151 ODIs, the Aussies have dominated India with a strong 84-57 record. Having said that, India do have the edge over Australia in the Champions Trophy, with a 2-1 lead, notching up wins in the first two editions of the tournament in the years 1998 and 2000. India and Australia have not faced each other in the Champions Trophy since 2006, when the Aussies emerged victorious by six wickets, which adds an extra layer of excitement. This match is 19 years in the making. Almost two decades.